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Cold Water

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Noun

1. cold water

disparagement of a plan or hope or expectation

Example Sentences:
'she poured cold water on the whole idea of going to Africa'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cold Water

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adjective
designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
a cold-water flat

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cold Water

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n.
Informal
Discouragement or disapproval: "I hadn't told her it was a costume party ... because she might have tossed cold water on the plan" (Caroline Preston).

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