pour cold water on

基本解釋

The stock recovered somewhat after several analysts stepped forward to pour cold water on the J. P. Morgan report.
不過，多名分析師對摩根大通的報告給予反駁后，蘋果股價略微有所回升。
Earlier on Wednesday Sports and Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani seemed to pour cold water on the idea of extra handouts for the sport.
文化和體育部長馬上也給這個計劃潑了冷水，聲撐一分多余的錢也不會給。
Pinocchio had no hat, but he managed to get under the window just in time to feel a shower of ice-cold water pour down on his poor wooden head, his shoulders, and over his whole body.
匹諾曹沒有帽子，但他設法走到窗下，正好一大盆冰水潑在了他可憐的木頭腦袋、肩膀和全身上。

Of course, it's easy to pour cold water on some of the assumptions made in Edlund and Korn's mathematical model.
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In deciding to raise short-term interest rates by half a point, to 6.5%, on May 16th, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has clearly decided to pour cold water on America's red-hot economy.
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