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wet firecracker

noun

Definitions

  1. A person, event, or object lacking liveliness or failing to generate excitement,…

    A person, event, or object lacking liveliness or failing to generate excitement, especially when there was a prior expectation of liveliness or excitement.

    • Coming after a fast, colorful movie like Super Fly, a follow-up called Super Fly TNT is a wet firecracker.
    • After Bernanke's first semiannual testimony before Congress in February, I wrote to my clients that his appearance was essentially a wet firecracker—he did not jolt the markets.
    • [A]udiences sensibly enough found Lollobrigida and Sinatra to be a wet firecracker of a team.

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