cool one's enthusiasm

We know you believe this delay will cool our enthusiasm.

Cool your enthusiasm and people will like you better.

This was the sort of arbitrary decision that no doubt cooled any enthusiasm he might have had for the new regime.

It would be unfortunate if there were any cooling of enthusiasm for enlargement at this stage.

The couple are still looking to buy a home, but they have cooled their enthusiasm and expanded their search, she said.

The shockwaves led to the Government cooling its enthusiasm for elected mayors.

Of course, the boom in prices has cooled the enthusiasm of some potential buyers.

This defeat of the invaders by a force less than half their size cooled the enthusiasm for war especially among the British colonial volunteers.

Early reliability problems, including slipping out of gear and vapor lock, cooled initial enthusiasm.

"It would tend to cool idealistic enthusiasm," Gar agreed.

The cooler weather also cools the enthusiasm of the bulk of anglers.

The French, for whom recession and unemployment have not yet cooled an enthusiasm for grand public arts gestures, did better.

For one, the prospect of Iran’s achieving the ability to make a nuclear bomb has cooled European enthusiasm for investing.

However, the growing intensity of the war in the Donbas cooled the enthusiasm for separatism and any plans that may have existed failed to materialise.

But the use of performance-enhancing drugs - by the players, not me - and the related corruption of once-sacrosanct statistics have cooled my enthusiasm.

Sharif is in favour of talks (though a recent bomb attack on a church has cooled his enthusiasm), and Kayani has been similarly disposed.

Armed Forces Were Cool Popular enthusiasm, though, was not matched by support from the armed forces or the traditional political parties.

T. Rowe Price, the fund company in Baltimore, also tries to cool investor enthusiasm in its latest investor newsletter.

Frankfurter Allgemeine noted that there has been a "gradual cooling of enthusiasm" amongst Germans for the US President, now in his second term.

After the early upbeat comments on the Iraqi message, Soviet leaders made no further comments, and there were indications that Moscow had decided to cool its enthusiasm somewhat.

But their deep reservations about the new Medicare program may cool their enthusiasm at a time when the White House is counting on them to lobby aggressively for the overall bill.

Even Manager Mike Scioscia, who daily dishes out the calm and the poise and the "this is a marathon, not a sprint" philosophy, seems to be wrestling with himself to cool the enthusiasm.

The halting of Japan’s nuclear industry – though possibly temporary – certainly reflects a dramatic cooling in enthusiasm for the technology following the failure last year of the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The Soviet military crackdown in the Baltics over the winter and the failure to make much progress, even slowly, toward a market system have cooled the enthusiasm to bring the Soviets into the I.M.F.

The economy appears to be overheating, running up shortages of raw materials and driving up inflation, and the Government is trying to slow growth rates a bit, something that may cool foreign enthusiasm for what is happening in China.