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throw cold water on something
idiom
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to be negative about someone's ideas or plans:
You're always throwing cold water on my suggestions.
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Discouraging and putting off
pour/throw cold water on something idiom

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put a spoke in someone's wheel idiom

To put a spoke in someone's wheel is an idiom that means to make it difficult for someone to achieve something they had planned to do1. It is an informal phrase that is used to describe a situation where someone deliberately does something to spoil another person's plans. The phrase is often used to describe a situation where someone disrupts, foils, or causes problems to another person's plan, activity, or project.

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take the wind out of someone's sails
idiom
 
(also knock the wind out of sb's sails, knock the wind out of sb)
to make someone feel less confident or less determined to do something, usually by saying or doing something that they are not expecting:
I was all ready to tell him that the relationship was over when he greeted me with a big bunch of flowers - that took the wind out of my sails.


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The phrase "to be put in the hot water" means to be in or get into a difficult situation in which you are in danger of being criticized or punished. It is often used to describe a situation where someone has provoked or incited anger, hostility, or punishment against one se


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in hot water
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Related to in hot water: at the eleventh hour
in hot water
Having provoked or incited anger, hostility, or punishment against oneself; in a troublesome or difficult situation, especially that which will result in punishment or reprisal.
I was in a bit of hot water with Janice last night when she found out I went to the movies instead of cleaning out the garage.
The senator is in hot water with constituents over his callous remarks.
See also: hot, water
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
*in hot water (with someone) (about someone or something)
Fig. in trouble. (*Typically: be ~; get [into] ~.) You are going to get into hot water with Rebecca about that. Amy got into hot water about Todd with Rebecca. John got himself into hot water by being late.
See also: hot, water
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
in hot water
COMMON If someone is in hot water, they have done something wrong and people are angry with them. Anelka's outspoken views have regularly landed him in hot water. Carlton has found himself in hot water over controversial statements in the past.
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
in hot water in a situation of difficulty, trouble, or disgrace.
1997 TV Quick Hunter finds himself in hot water when a local TV reporter accuses him of police brutality—and is later found dead.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
in hot ;water (informal) in trouble: She got into hot water for being late. ; The new clerk was in hot water because she forgot to ask for a receipt for the money. ; This sort of behaviour will land him in hot water.
See also: hot, water
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
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be in hot water
be in hot water with (someone)
wash (one's) hands of (someone or something)
wash hands of
wash one's hands of
wash one's hands of (something), to
wash your hands of
wash your hands of somebody/something
wash your hands of something/someone
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