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Wet blanket   /wɛt blˈæŋkət/   Listen
noun
Blanket  n.  
1.
A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
2.
(Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
3.
A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. "Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!""
Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size.
A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discourages.


adjective
Wet  adj.  (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)
Synonyms: Nasty; humid; damp; moist. See Nasty.





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"Wet blanket" Quotes from Famous Books



... you strung him for all he could carry," said Forrest. "Here, Dell. You were in such a hurry to get away that I overlooked warning you against these trail varmints. Right now, I can see old Nat leading you in under a wet blanket, and your colors dragging. Don't believe a word he told you, and don't even give him a pleasant ...
— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams
... a big Dutchman comin' at me from the other side. Lucky fer me that I 'ad a round in me breach. He'd 'a' got me if it 'adn't 'a' been fer that ca'tridge. I let 'im 'ave it an' 'e crumpled up like a wet blanket." ...
— Kitchener's Mob - Adventures of an American in the British Army • James Norman Hall
... contrivances she found there. The drawers fitted in the skipper's bunk were a source of particular interest, and the owner watched with strong disapprobation through the skylight her efforts to make him an apple-pie bed with the limited means at her disposal. He went down below at once as a wet blanket. ...
— Lady of the Barge and Others, Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... conclusion, that, as to our het-pint, we were obligated to make the best of a bad bargain, making up with whisky what it wanted in eggs; though our banquet could not be called altogether a merry one, the joys of our escape from the horrors of the fire being damped, as it were by a wet blanket, on account of the nefarious pillaging of ...
— The Life of Mansie Wauch - Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself • David Macbeth Moir


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