noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
damp
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The fireworks display that heralded the opening of Antwerp 93 went off like a damp squib .
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The traditional Easter turkey boom - the second biggest after Christmas - was a damp squib because hard-up families bought cheaper chickens.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
damp squib
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The fireworks display that heralded the opening of Antwerp 93 went off like a damp squib.
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The traditional Easter turkey boom - the second biggest after Christmas - was a damp squib because hard-up families bought cheaper chickens.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Let Fortune writer Ronald Henkoff describe what followed: The squib demanded at least five years' experience in human resources.
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Readers may have thought his front page squibs came from the pen of a dominant shareholder.
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The fireworks display that heralded the opening of Antwerp 93 went off like a damp squib .
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The general opinion was that it had fizzled out; like a spent squib , it hadn't even given one burst.
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The traditional Easter turkey boom - the second biggest after Christmas - was a damp squib because hard-up families bought cheaper chickens.