a damp squib

a damp ˈsquib(BrE) (informal)an event that is disappointing because it is not as exciting or impressive as expected哑炮；令人失望的事；令人扫兴的事

• deflection pattern
• thumbstalls
• negaters
• laminectormy
• refr
• Heath Robinson
• pliant
• tringle
• cavilingly
• come into the picture
• air wells
• pas de quatre
• whiffiest
• linzs
• much the same
• D.R.E.
• butties
• terrestrial planet
• basic oxide
• smarminesses
• Pallopteridae
• block fields
• flash spectroscopy
• dramaturgist
• rajaships
• sanitary
• voyageurs
• groveless
• advanced in years
• catch up on
• bummalos
• echoed
• randomized group design
• singular cohomology group
• atomic philosophy
• podomeres
• witing
• dental papilla
• cricetid
• concentric windings
• Fu Manchu mustaches
• titivated
• begot
• neologism
• bulimic
• trickeration
• trifacial neuralgia
• CTM
• two-steps
• current attenuation
• Aubusson rug
• delorenzite
• homeworkers
• deposit in
• wave-cut cliff
• palletizer
• back-pedaled或-pedalled
• have a shingle short
• sack
• struggle for existence
• single-tuned amplifier
• well nigh
• bubble concept
• surface phase
• Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre
• Embioptera
• cannot help
• bring a storm about someone's ear
• geniuses;genii
• corruptibility
• topgallant sails
• dropout current
• maremmas
• gargoylisms
• distillation loss
• Lygaeidae
• tephroites
• reeducated
• amitriptylene
• tumorous
• medievalisms
• confusion (of radio sources)
• bring down the house
• sackcloth and ashes
• in its proper place
• induced drag
• brake bands
• dragon boats
• pillowlike
• immobilism
• go with the flow
• chuckhole
• biddability
• caravanserais
• such-and-suches
• the exercise of judgement
• negative modulation
• freebie
• demasking
• not hold out any, much, etc. hope (of sth/that…)