wet blanket
弄濕的毯子,掃興的事
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.
wet blanket
n : someone who spoils the pleasure of others [syn: spoilsport,
killjoy, party pooper]