pour cold water on

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to give reasons for not being in favour of sth; to criticize sth

   Look here, Bob. I don't want to throw cold water on your plans, but aren't you forgetting certain financial obligations?

In the movies · 1

• Look here, Bob. I don't want to throw cold water on your plans, but aren't you forgetting certain financial obligations?The Letter1940
• - Far be it from me to pour cold water on all your fun, but if Mrs. Scrubitt catches you trying to escape,Wonka2023

Learn it in full scenes

• The Letter1940
  • Leslie Confesses After the Shooting
  • Leslie Recounts the Night Hammond Died
  • Leslie Describes Shooting Hammond

From the same entry

• a cold fish
• get cold feet
• give the cold shoulder
• in cold blood
• in the cold light of day
• leave cold
• make blood run cold
• blow hot and cold
• go hot and cold
• come in from the cold
• leave out in the cold
• catch your death