| This is a couple of weeks earlier than most people had expected, I fluctuate between thinking it will be a great success or a damp squib. |
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| For a government that claims its willingness to take tough decisions, this paper really is a damp squib. |
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| 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. |
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| A spectacular charity firewalk has been called off because council bungling turned the event into a damp squib. |
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| 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. |
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| Christmas too has been a damp squib for the merchants and businesses as people rethink and re-evaluate their priorities. |
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| The legislation was little more than a damp squib, offering the possibility of some positive changes but hardly making the necessary difference. |
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| Ironically, the champion of the less well off appears more of a damp squib than a Catherine wheel. |
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| Well the cynics among you may well be thinking that this is yet another government report that arrives in a blaze of glory and ends up as something of a damp squib! |
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| Organisers of York's November 5 fireworks spectacular were slammed as the aerial display proved a damp squib, with thousands of people unable to see the show. |
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| The singer's anthemic effort failed to live up to Ireland's high-scoring record in the contest, and that made the event something of a damp squib. |
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| I was a tad worried that the new series might be an over-hyped damp squib. |
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| Despite fine words about sustainability and pages of pretty pictures of the environment, the Scottish Forestry Strategy turns out to be a damp squib. |
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| And maybe that is why cricket's fiction is all too often a damp squib, an ersatz simulacrum of the real thing. |
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| But it proved to be a damp squib and an anticlimax if ever there was one. |
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| Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos was among those mourning the damp squib of a final day. |
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| For several teams, the third heat of the Mediagroup Van Dyck Belcar turned out to be a damp squib. |
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| Fireworks Night is already past, but November will be remembered as the month when Rangers either went off like a damp squib or blazed like a rocket. |
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| By Chinese standards, that's a damp squib. |
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| Unions will be embarrassed by a damp squib. |
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| The revelations in the Pontius Pilate Report are a lot more explosive than the damp squib of an affair between Mary Magdalene and Jesus or the possible existence of a child of theirs. |
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| Its only nuclear explosion was thought a damp squib. |
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| After the ousting of their charismatic vocalist John Bush and the damp squib that was the reunion with Belladonna, Anthrax had to find a new frontman. |
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| Cataleya's archnemesis and the entire reason for her revenge spree, Don Luis, is a damp squib and then some. |
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| I think Game of Love is a damp squib of a second track, Lose Yourself to Dance is too slow and the lyrics are either meaningless or sentimental in a peculiarly continental way. |
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| Their third with the hosts proved a bit of a damp squib as Nooij tried out a few new men, knowing full well a draw would see them top the group with seven points. |
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| The trouble with this big bang is that a damp squib is set to precede it, in the shape of ten fixtures that have to be shoehorned into the preceding week. |
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