Sentences with phrase «damp squib»

It was a bit of damp squib against Norwich, but hopefully that was just the beginning, and with momentum, become bigger over time.

«On Saturday, the fans had a chance to basically make their view known that it is time for change, but it turned into a massive damp squib.

The lesson of the SDP's damp squib start is that Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system is very unforgiving for small parties.

But overall, there is a distinct damp squib feeling in Rio.

The latest damp squib reflects little credit on any of those involved.

AS DAMP squibs go, it was quite a spectacular one.

Simply lacking any narrative hook, weâ $ ™ re forced to endure the torturous quest to find the Justin Timberlake - voiced Artie, a real damp squib of a character utterly bereft of remotely interesting dialogue.

Likewise, for all the talk of the showdown with Bill (when it finally arrives after far too much time), his death is a total damp squib, with far too little catharsis and making too less sense.

What we actually get is the dampest of damp squibs thrown into a not especially flammable nest of 70s hairstyles and furniture.

For example, the much discussed and hyped (in some quarters) new category of «dependant contractor» actually appears on the surface to be a simple re-naming of the existing category of worker and therefore is an important but none the less slightly damp squib of a development.

The Monday of conference is always a bit of damp squib, a hump to get over before the final debates and leader's speech, but there is an important debate on some secret justice proposals today in which Lib Dems must reaffirm their stance on fair justice.

What a damp squib August has been.

True, the last series to be held down under was a damp squib as a contest with England being summarily dismissed with a 5 - 0 whitewash but the odds on the same scoreline being replicated this time round are extremely slim

And the way the planned protests at the end of last season turned out to be a damp squib proves that there are plenty of AKBs out there.

When added to the fact that they're struggling to score as well, this season is shaping up to be another damp squib after a lot of promise going in.

But Gareth Southgate's glorious # 12m transfer splurge may yet end up as a damp squib; the Brazilian could find it hard to get a work permit due to the fact that he has won only one international cap.

Was it a barnstorming game or a damp squib?

Kroenke is a damp Squib.

The players must step up and take responsibility as well, but we have gone on long successful runs before and if we can do it again, maybe this season will not turn out to be the damp squib that it was looking like.

This tells me that he is definitely not a damp squib but could be brilliant investment even at # 8million.

And we really need it to be, because what was supposed to be a great season for the Gunners, following on from our Premier League title charge last season and the end of a nine year wait for a trophy, has turned into yet another damp squib, so far at least.

There was extra interest because these two would be teammates at McLaren in 2005, though sadly that particular teammate battle would end up being a damp squib.

A deadline day that promised so much, with the wantaway Alexis Sanchez tipped to leave the Gunners and the exciting Thomas Lemar likely to arrive - among others - ended up becoming something of a damp squib.

As European come - backs go, the game against Liverpool on Thursday was a damp squib.

Carroll is a damp squib without his elbows and even when he wins headers the defence get it.

His arrival represented the Hammers» biggest summer outlay and something of a damp squib at that.

It was a bit of a damp squib in the end with two defeats in the last two games once...

Final day nothing to play for except CL places - & that was a damp squib.

It was a bit of a damp squib in the end with two defeats in the last two games once we knew our place in the Premier League was safe, but the season as a whole was far from that with some outstanding performances, and in particular a superb home record.

The sixteen month police investigation was reduced to a damp squib.

He told MPs: «Despite the disappointment of the party opposite that supports irresponsible and damaging strikes, it looks like something of a damp squib.»

Both, however, turned a damp squib — Ojukwu's bluff, after consuming no less than two million lives; and Kanu, straining to escape trial, with the Avengers» threat his most pathetically potent fall back!

The bonfire of the quangos became a damp squib for David Cameron.

Government debt is a burgeoning issue, but the solutions are thus far a damp squib.

Those who predicted a profound shift in the ideological landscape might now look back on the 2008 elections as a damp squib.

That said, it was a politically clever move, even if a previous effort at cross-party reform (on Council Tax) proved a damp squib.

By the time the documentary aired it was received as something of a damp squib.

It also looks like there will be more women MPs in Scotland, although a shift from the current 22 % to perhaps as much as 30 % seems more of a damp squib than a revolution.

British business can not afford another damp squib like Merlin.

Asked whether the current proposals were «damp squib» - as political opponents have claimed - Mr Cameron replied: «Not at all.

He added: «This afternoon is a diversion but I think it's damp squib.

The public sector pensions strike was closer to being «historic», as the unions claimed, than it was to being a «damp squib», as the prime minister suggested.

As things stand, it is a damp squib.

How appropriate it is that this weekend's Diamond Jubilee celebrations are something of a damp squib - a very fair reflection of our attitudes to the monarchy question.

But ideologically, it would appear a damp squib.

I suspect deselections will turn out to be a damp squib with a few symbolic victories but not enough to truly alter the overall shape of the Parliamentary party or more than a handful of councils.

But Gloria De Piero, Labour's shadow minister for women, has dismissed the initiative as a damp squib.

The Tories have spent the last few days briefing that this would be the reshuffle which fixed David Cameron's «women problem» but it's turning in to a damp squib.