Put a damper on
verb phrase
To discourage or dishearten; also, to decrease the intensity of something: Insects put a damper on my plans to move to Maine
Discourage, dishearten, deter, as in Grandpa’s death put a damper on our Christmas holidays. This idiom employs the noun damper in the sense of “something that damps or depresses the spirits,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s.
Read Also:
- Put a cork in it
verb phrase To keep silent; shut up •Often an irritated command: A New York judge has mercifully told Woody and Mia to put a cork in it (1990s+)
- Put a fork into someone
verb phrase To show that someone or something is definitively finished; confirm failure: If American businesses don’t catch up you can ”put a fork into ’em. They’re done” [1990s+; fr the cook’s way of testing whether something baked or roasted is ready to serve]
- Purulent inflammation
purulent inflammation n. An acute form of exudative inflammation in which the enzymes produced by white blood cells cause liquefaction of the affected tissues, resulting in the formation of pus. Also called suppurative inflammation.
- Purulent
[pyoo r-uh-luh nt, pyoo r-yuh-] /ˈpyʊər ə lənt, ˈpyʊər yə-/ adjective 1. full of, containing, forming, or discharging pus; suppurating: a purulent sore. 2. attended with suppuration: purulent appendicitis. 3. of the nature of or like pus: purulent matter. /ˈpjʊərʊlənt/ adjective 1. of, relating to, or containing pus adj. early 15c., from Middle French purulent […]
- Putangitangi
/puːˌtɑːəŋɡiːˈtɑːəŋɡiː/ noun (pl) putangitangi 1. (NZ) another name for paradise duck