| 单词 | put a damper on |
| 释义 | put a damper onSEE SYNONYMS FOR put a damper on ON THESAURUS.COM Discourage, dishearten, deter, as in Grandpa's death put a damper on our Christmas holidays. This idiom employs the noun damper in the sense of “something that damps or depresses the spirits,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s. Words nearby put a damper onpustulous, put, put about, put a bug in someone's ear, put across, put a damper on, put all one's eggs in one basket, putamen, put-and-take, put an end to, putangitangi The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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