“The question is: How can we bring the temperature of the country down? And I want to be the metaphorical wet blanket for the country.”Merriam-Webster: “one that quenches or dampens enthusiasm or pleasure.”
Synonyms: drag, grinch, killjoy, party pooper, spoilsport.
In high school, we called such a person a bringdown. Aw man, don’t be a bringdown!
Perhaps Andrew Yang is harking back to nineteenth-century hydrotherapy and the practice of “wet-sheet packing.” In which case, again: block that metaphor. The doctor is out!
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