Sentences with phrase «pouring buckets of ice water»

Mr. Siddall's opinion seems less surprising if you consider that, since being hired in 2014 to run CMHC, he has been tasked with pouring buckets of ice water on housing markets in B.C.'s Lower Mainland and Southern Ontario that refuse to cool down amid historically low interest rates.

He sat out 132 days for consorting with bookmakers, another month for carrying a firearm and being insubordinate to Tiger management, and seven days for pouring a bucket of ice water over two sportswriters.

This had the effect of pouring a bucket of ice water on sleepy viruses to keep them awake once they reach the nucleus.

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Worst case scenario, you can store your milk for a couple days in an ice bucket full of ice from the dispenser, but it is a hassle to keep refilling the ice and pouring out the old water.

ANYA: I see Thomasin as this beautiful flame that has a bucket of ice - cold water poured on it again, and again, and again.

Thus given that such surveys are overly optimistic, a recent UK survey pours bucket loads of ice - cold water on the economic attractiveness of ebook subscription services for publishers.