pour/throw cold water on sth
to criticize someone's opinions or ideas and stop people believing them or being excited about them
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Discouraging and putting off
- aversive
- cold
- daunt
- daunting
- deter
- deterrence
- discourage
- discouragement
- dishearten
- disincentive
- emasculate
- put
- put a spoke in sb's wheel idiom
- spoil
- spoil sb's party idiom
- take the wind out of sb's sails idiom
- throw
- throw cold water on sth idiom
- wind 1
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