What does it mean to be a wet blanket?

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asked Oct 18, 2020 in Words & Wordplay by Dorisdbetc (720 points)
What does it mean to be a wet blanket?

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answered Oct 18, 2020 by Shawn (99,990 points)
What it means to be a wet blanket is it means that you're a person who spoils other people's fun by failing to join in with or by disapproving of their activities.

Basically you're a wet blanket if you're a spoil sport or someone who does not want to join in the person activities or you put down their ideas.

Or if you just simply don't want to have any fun then you can be considered a wet blanket.

The term wet blanket basically comes from the use of a wet blanket to smother out fires as the wet blanket when applied to fires would extinguish those fires.

So when you're a wet blanket you basically extinguish the fire as in not allowing anyone to have any fun or not joining in on the fun which makes it less fun for the other people.

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