Sentences with phrase «wet blanket»

Do not leave wash blankets out as wet blankets is another hot bed for bacteria growth.

Sorry to be the only wet blanket but I did not find this cake to be very good.

(This movie has the most broadly drawn wet blanket of a critic I've seen in a movie, exceeding even Birdman's vicious character.)

You can also try wrapping moistened or wet blanket over your dog.

We are often called wet blanket party poopers when it comes to holiday traditions, but maybe we are right.

Signs of overheating can be found in wet blankets from sweat and babies» temperature rising above the normal 97 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit range.

You pick up the phone and call your nearest and dearest Wet Blanket friend.

Even when oil prices rebound, he believes Alberta's NDP government will be a «huge wet blanket» to foreign investment in the province.

So though your parents might sound like a couple of wet blankets when they harass you about using your cell phone while driving, they're really just trying to save your life.

The other potential wet blanket — the boring and white Tish (Wendi McLendon - Covey)-- gets a makeover and becomes one of the girls.

Therese Coffey (Con, human wet blanket) says she's going to vote against the bill.

Another common Wet Blanket we fall back on is more sneaky than a person: it's our language.

Nobody likes a pessimistic defeatist, this will only give of an impression that your a complaining wet blanket which I don't think is a quality anyone is looking for from your online dating profile.

(That 10 percent thing is not true, but if you're the sort of wet blanket who picks movie science apart with dogged determination, you should probably get a restraining order against Lucy, because it's only going to cause you indigestion.)

The conventional crime - time format incinerates everything strange and spirited about the concept, and Lucifer's cop partner (Lauren German)-- the female wet blanket to his male rogue — is a trope that needs to go to hell.

This year's Man of the Year, Swing Vote is the kind of lefty pinko wet blanket that can't take a stand without providing narration for it, until finally it reveals itself as a public - service announcement for the sanctity of casting a vote that's properly counted.

As she hurries around her kitchen preparing the food for the fateful dinner party, a stubborn fridge door which refuses to close for her becomes an amusing symbol of her frustration at her atrophied and repressed domestic life, as she becomes increasingly alienated from her two sons and her emotionally - distant wet blanket of a husband.

Adding to the confusion for vocal wet blankets is the fact that romance writers and fans can no longer be lumped into the stereotype of the discontented, underappreciated housewife who sits in her modest home and devours these stories as a means of escape.

While Rikuo could be a real wet blanket, his yokai companions were much more interesting.

Only a total wet blanket would point out that the year to February 2010 gain in house prices of +0.6 % compares unfavorably with inflation over the same period, which came in at +1.8 %.

This is a trip all ages will enjoy party poopers and wet blankets need not apply!

Yes, in addition to running this blog I am also a professional wet blanket Moderation and boundaries solve many problems, as I mentioned in one of the above comments.

Ramirez's artworks aren't dour, modernist wet blankets; they're witty.

Of course, back then the U.S. at least was not dominated by a bunch of wet blankets insisting that «our best days are behind us, we absolutely can not improve the smallest iota about our technologies or habits without simply laying down and dying right on the spot».

We also get accused of being tedious wet blankets when we complain about fireworks and barbecues and meat and generally having a good time, so here is a roundup of our past posts on the 4th of July, with only a touch of dire stuff.

It's sporty enough not to be a complete wet blanket on a winding mountain road, yet it's also smooth and quiet enough for easy everyday commuting.

Her mothering impulse teaches that all of us, in a way, are children wrapped in wet blankets — and that sometimes a rescue must be mounted, like a mother who summons courage, devotion and if need be ferocity to save a child.

Because Fox's wet blanket of a demon generates absolutely zero scares, Jennifer's Body relies mostly on el cheapo startles to generate tension, such as Jennifer showing up behind people with no warning and don't - look - behind - that - door frights where things jump into view from off - screen.

Taking a wide range of questions at the conference, which was hosted by Morgan Stanley and broadcast online, Dimon also said the economy and consumers were improving steadily despite a political and regulatory environment in Washington, D.C. that acted like a «wet blanket» on growth.

These wet blanket rooftop solar policy states have stunted or unbalanced solar markets.

pulling out my wet blanket... I wish Notley had let industry leaders twist in the wind for at least a full week.

The SEC has thrown a wet blanket on the creative fires of these minds here in the US of A.

I hate to be the wet blanket, and maybe it's just a matter of defining terms rather than a difference in ideas, but Jesus did define in and out not in and in.

I feel like the wet blanket of the group, but I think we are all talking about different things.

If and when cocktails are served, he has to drink a little, not because he likes it but because nobody wants to be a wet blanket.

I'd say that this wet blanket attitude toward sex only comes with those in the rule bound denominations, not in the Saved by Grace denominations.

This is a way to cook the noodles in the pot with the rest of the dish, so you don't have to worry about trying to layer things with a wet blanket of noodles.

Some mornings, when snow slumps down over your house like a wet blanket, you can't help but feel a thin chill creep into you.

Not to be a wet blanket but I'd just like to temper some of the ideas about tofu in these comments.

A: Hello Fredrick: I hate to throw a wet blanket over your plans, but your idea is flawed.

When temperatures are broiling and humidity is a wet blanket, the sole salve for your sanity is a beer, the colder the better.

I hate to throw a wet blanket over your plans, but your idea is flawed.