damp squib
Noun
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Noun
damp squib (plural damp squibs)
- (UK) A firework that fails to go off, due to wetting.
- (idiomatic, by extension) Anything that doesn’t work properly, or fails to come up to expectations.
- French: pétard mouillé
- German: Blindgänger, Versager
- French: pétard mouillé
- German: Schuss in den Ofen, Reinfall, Schlag ins Wasser, Rohrkrepierer
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