Meaning of pour cold water on | Babel Free

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Synonym of throw cold water on (“to belittle or dismiss”).

idiomatic

Examples

“Leaked documents from TfL poured cold water over the prospect of driverless trains. They concluded there was no financial case because because of the very high up-front infrastructure costs.”

“However, a national security council official poured cold water on the suggestion there would be US “boots on the ground” in Haiti, telling the Washington-based agency: “The United States is not sending US troops to Haiti to support the Haitian national police’s security operations.””

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