Schedule Counter Blast was the worst wet firecracker in military history.

"The monobloc isn't even in the running; if it ever existed, it was just a wet firecracker by comparison."

Dramatic climaxes will fizzle like wet firecrackers.

The small craft shuddered and fizzled like a wet firecracker.

They've got bombs that make the thantrom device that was aboard this ship, before we dumped it, look like a wet firecracker.

"The possible ramifications have been linked to everything from commercial Armageddon to the muffled bang of a wet firecracker," he told the group.

Instead of rapid-fire explosions that would set the world ablaze, it seemed as if they might be left with wet firecrackers, sputtering in vain.

The detonation, when it came, was like a wet firecracker in the wake of an artillery barrage, but it was all he needed.

Mel's fury fizzled out like a wet firecracker.

Their little packages exploded harmlessly, like wet firecrackers on the Fourth of July.