| And maybe that is why cricket's fiction is all too often a damp squib, an ersatz simulacrum of the real thing. |
| A spectacular charity firewalk has been called off because council bungling turned the event into a damp squib. |
| The final straw came when the captain forgot to give the countdown to midnight at the New Year's Eve, making a damp squib of the party. |
| The legislation was little more than a damp squib, offering the possibility of some positive changes but hardly making the necessary difference. |
| Christmas too has been a damp squib for the merchants and businesses as people rethink and re-evaluate their priorities. |
| She warned that although there was a lot of potential with the town twinning, unless the community pulled together it would be a damp squib. |
