| I don't want to be a kill-joy, but don't give me more of that side of your character than you can help. |
| Scrooge is the anti-festive man brought into the circle of festivity, the kill-joy transformed into the joyful player. |
| Frederick was a kill-joy, she said, and moreover she did not wish to ask an extra woman to dinner. |
| Here, more than at Furnas, the wind, which is often adverse, can be a kill-joy and adding a further difficulty to the length of the course of 6,120 metres. |
| I was urged to play, and, not wanting to be a kill-joy, I foolishly agreed. |
| Louis, in fact, must have appeared to Charles primarily in the light of a kill-joy. |
