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damp squib
noun
, British Informal.
- something meant but failing to impress or succeed.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of damp squib1
First recorded in 1965–70
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Example Sentences
Such love must come to disaster; it is like a damp squib, it is never properly alight and fades out swiftly in noisy splutters.
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It must be owned that they were decidedly daring, yet in the nature of damp-squib affairs, as it turned out.
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Our artillery put salvoes at once upon those trenches; and the raid of that night proved a damp squib.
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Deprived of the Sheikhs countenance the jehad proved a rather damp squib.
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"No you don't," said the dragon in a spluttering voice, like a damp squib.
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