| Ironically, the champion of the less well off appears more of a damp squib than a Catherine wheel. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| A spectacular charity firewalk has been called off because council bungling turned the event into a damp squib. |
