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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 wet blanket
 弄濕的毯子,掃興的事

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Wet a. [Compar. Wetter superl. Wettest.]
 1. Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet cloth; a wet table. Wet cheeks.”
 2. Very damp; rainy; as, wet weather; a wet season.  Wet October's torrent flood.”
 3. Chem. Employing, or done by means of, water or some other liquid; as, the wet extraction of copper, in distinction from dry extraction in which dry heat or fusion is employed.
 4. Refreshed with liquor; drunk.  [Slang]
 Wet blanket, Wet dock, etc.  See under Blanket, Dock, etc.
 Wet goods, intoxicating liquors. [Slang]
 Syn: -- Nasty; humid; damp; moist.  See Nasty.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 wet blanket
      n : someone who spoils the pleasure of others [syn: spoilsport,
           killjoy, party pooper]