damp squib

I would hate it to turn out to be a damp squib.

This was something of a damp squib given that we had just declared them to be married.

In the end his speech was a damp squib.

"I know the one in November was a damp squib, but there could be another.

"I wouldn't call two million people taking strike action a damp squib," he said.

More interestingly, no one seems to mind the damp squib in Cannes.

Talking of strikes - Isn't it time for the damp squib to take another holiday?

A damp squib on launch for all intents and purposes.

The phrase "damp squib" has since come into general use to mean anything that fails to meet expectations.

The return of the trailblazer beat poet ended up a damp squib.

The strike "looks like a damp squib", he says.

But WAS it art, or just a bit of a damp squib?

If this was what she believed, the sensational details she'd been promising were likely to be a damp squib.

These can either be a damp squib or produce outbursts of 100 meteors an hour.

Far from providing the grand finale, Key West was rather a damp squib.

And for me a Lucian Freud is a damp squib.

Whereas what we got was a damp squib.

"Then we may take it that our Austrian friend's scheme will just fizzle out like a damp squib?"

After the glorious year of 2010 - for the stock market anyway - this year has, so far, been a damp squib.

This was supposed to be the big pile-on by his rivals to take him down, but a damp squib on that front so far.

- David Cameron has dismissed today's public sector strike as "a damp squib".

But David Cameron claimed that the industrial action was "looking like something of a damp squib".

The league should jettison thursday night games, which are always a damp squib.