This idea needs a cold splash of realism.

The cold splash of wine on his burning skin was enough to break Kio's hysteria.

A cold splash in the canal would help to clear up the drugged sensation that clung to the periphery of my brain.

It's a cold splash in the face that tells you you can always visit but you're not going home.

A sudden, cold splash struck him, dragging him back to full awareness.

The sight of it doused me with a cold splash of reality.

"Wall Street got a cold splash in the face after several buoyant years."

I felt something a cold splash on my cheek.

Today's real estate market, however, calls for a different kind of letter, less a fuzzy valentine and more like a cold splash of water.

While there, he said, "I got a real cold splash in the face of what real songwriting is about.