damp squib

damp squib

• • [英国俚语、口语]徒劳的尝试，枉费心机之事，无成效的、不成功(或完全失败)的事(或行动)；不起作用之物；完全失败；落空；先响后哑的潮鞭炮；雷声大雨点小；虎头蛇尾
  • 引不起同情(或注意)的事物

• pikemen
• obliquing
• Boophilus
• riverway
• hier
• khurta
• line-dances
• stand in for
• critical zone
• petrissage
• Cyrenaic
• native rock
• phytoecology
• estranged
• röntgenography
• (as) pretty as a picture
• choke a horse
• magisterialness
• duff
• outsung
• thermodynamic temperature
• free electron
• no-time
• abyssal zones
• bang stick
• libations
• deferred stream
• sequential sampling
• ferrous bromide
• cubebs
• frob
• come down
• deflagrates
• terminal points
• data dependence graph
• best bowers
• give & take trade
• sound-bited
• feed grain
• thyroid gland
• appropinquation
• latchkey child
• fosser
• dreamlessness
• intuitionist
• Meissner's corpuscles
• red-faced
• prince alberts
• soricidaes
• palapas
• stroppier
• targeted campaign
• not half as / so good / interesting etc (as sb / sth)
• ovarian ligaments
• astronomic tide
• absorption wavemeter
• laumontite
• store-and-forward
• muffed
• zebras
• girasol
• engrainer
• argon laser
• true to life
• tea pad
• hydrazobenzene
• jeux
• regenerates
• into the background
• part.aeq.
• frame camera
• Rhodes, James Ford
• pasty
• removable disk
• gamma-ray astronomy
• trochanter
• Thermaic, Gulf
• coralene
• orthodoxy
• warrantest
• proton resonance
• Leptotrichia
• product initiation
• hoy
• tortuose
• triangle inequality
• be on the bum
• West,Nathanael
• qualify for
• tactlessnesses
• ascending rhythm
• boysenberry
• AAGR
• triskaidekaphobia
• creative evolution
• actresses
• erythrocytometry
• pragues
• basswood
• perceivable