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damp squib
noun
- something meant but failing to impress or succeed.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of damp squib1
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Example Sentences
The bipartisan infrastructure package working its way through congress is, at best, a damp squib from a climate standpoint.
For the most anticipated earnings event of the year to date, GameStop’s call with analysts on Tuesday night was something of a damp squib.
Such love must come to disaster; it is like a damp squib, it is never properly alight and fades out swiftly in noisy splutters.
It must be owned that they were decidedly daring, yet in the nature of damp-squib affairs, as it turned out.
Our artillery put salvoes at once upon those trenches; and the raid of that night proved a damp squib.
Deprived of the Sheikhs countenance the jehad proved a rather damp squib.
"No you don't," said the dragon in a spluttering voice, like a damp squib.
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