Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “pour/throw cold water on” and its meaning is “reduce someone’s enthusiasm/interest in doing something; to decrease someone’s courage/confidence in; discourage, demoralize, unnerve, dispirit, dishearten, unenthuse, scare, frighten, intimidate, dismay, deter”.
Example Sentence: French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted by a huge crowd at a university in southern China on Friday on the last day of a visit in which he repeatedly pushed his counterpart Xi Jinping to help end the Ukraine conflict. Moscow has poured cold water on prospects of Beijing’s mediation, insisting on Thursday it had “no choice” but to press on with its Ukraine offensive. Beyond the war in Ukraine, Mr. Macron’s visit (to China) has also focused on firming up a crucial trade partnership.
This word is present in Macron mobbed at university on final day of China trip and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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