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What is a wet blanket?

What is a wet blanket? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A person who takes the fun out of a situation or activity, as by pessimism, demands, dullness, etc.
  2. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see wet,‎ blanket.
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Do I always seek the positive factor in a problem or a situation, or is my negative attitude putting a wet blanket on morale?
Over-regulation closes businesses and the EU paper wet blanket is putting out the fire of enterprise and the ember of innovation.
You can go to the site to read it all if you like, although as it goes on it gets a bit much for a wet blanket like me.
That means reducing the debt that hangs like a wet blanket over economic growth.
It wasn't like she was a wet blanket exactly, well perhaps she was but really that was beside the point.
Most of the time, he found himself to be the one to be the wet blanket of the group.

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