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Examples
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Anyway, in the end, it was a pleasant experience to feel that vibe, and it put a small gleam on what has otherwise been a bit of a wet-blanket week.
People/Poetry matrixleap 2010
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It seems to me that, in addition to the social pleasure of receiving a gift, any gift, the gift also comes free of the wet-blanket participation of the thinking prefrontal cortex and the viscerally judgmental insula.
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Indeed, faced with the riling rhetoric and accompanying dust storm of publicity accompanying Perry, conservative intellectuals such as David Brooks and Reihan Salam pine for the soothing wet-blanket anti-charisma of Romney, or – are you sitting down?
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That's the wet-blanket realist answer of course: Harry Potter characters live in a fantasy world, where if they eschew their studies in favor of a showdown with ultimate evil, they always have their wands, spells and elves to snatch them away from danger at the right moment.
Ruth Starkman: Harry Potter: College Drop Out? Ruth Starkman 2010
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We know we're in the tiny, wet-blanket humorless minority on this.
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That's the wet-blanket realist answer of course: Harry Potter characters live in a fantasy world, where if they eschew their studies in favor of a showdown with ultimate evil, they always have their wands, spells and elves to snatch them away from danger at the right moment.
Ruth Starkman: Harry Potter: College Drop Out? Ruth Starkman 2010
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That's the wet-blanket realist answer of course: Harry Potter characters live in a fantasy world, where if they eschew their studies in favor of a showdown with ultimate evil, they always have their wands, spells and elves to snatch them away from danger at the right moment.
Ruth Starkman: Harry Potter: College Drop Out? Ruth Starkman 2010
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Hey Michael: The wet-blanket blog's over there, and the Feeling Superior blog's next door to it.
Live-blogging the Oscars. Ann Althouse 2009
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Allow me to do a little downbeat and wet-blanket prognosticating here, a bit of bad-boy forecasting in the "worst-case" rather than the "blue-sky" register.
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Even with these offsets, however, pension-fund sales can't help but have a wet-blanket effect.
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