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| throw cold water (кого-либо); put a wet blanket on; throw a wet blanket on; kill enthusiasm; throw cold water on; pour cold water on; throw a wet blanket over; cool eagerness (smb.'s enthusiasm, энтузиа́зм); curb enthusiasm (vlad-and-slav); put a chill on (Taras) | |||
| have a chilling effect (Халеев) | |||
| put on ice ("Don't tell me that a girl like Corky, accustomed to giving Hollywood glamour men the brusheroo, couldn't put Gussie on ice, if she wanted to." (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) | |||
| pour cold water on something; pour cold water over something; throw cold water on something | |||
| let down easy (Анна Ф) | |||
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| tame ardour; tame temper; freeze enthusiasm; dampen ardour; dilute earnestness | |||
| put a damper on one's parade | |||
| tame someone's ardour; tame someone's temper; freeze someone's enthusiasm; cool one's ardour; damp down someone's enthusiasm; damp ardour; damp someone's enthusiasm | |||
| throw a cold douche upon (устаревшим в данном случае является английское выражение) Комментарий носителя – пользователя Liv Bliss: . Да и само выражение гуглится в основном на русских ресурсах.: There are several entries with "douche" whose posters are apparently unaware that the word is now mostly associated with a feminine hygiene product.); throw a cold douche upon (Thus the UK High Commissioner in Ottawa, for example, finally took Bennett aside and attempted to throw a cold douche on his loyalist zeal.) | |||
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| cool smb.'s eagerness (smb.'s enthusiasm, энтузиа́зм) | |||
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| Allgemeine Lexik | 6 |
| Makarow | 3 |