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pour/throw cold water on something idiom to criticize someone's opinions or ideas and stop people believing them or being excited about them给…泼冷水 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Discouraging and putting off aversive dampen someone's enthusiasm dampen someone's spirits dampener on something daunt deter deterrence deterrent discourage discouragement dishearten disheartening dishearteningly disincentive emasculate emasculation spoke take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom throw cold water on somethingidiom unencouraging
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