"Damp squib" nghĩa là gì?

"Damp squib" = pháo ẩm -> nghĩa là điều gây thất vọng.

Ví dụ

“It seems like a damp squib to have just one game to finish the season - especially in a season when a lot of these games were characterised by understrength teams.

See off Ireland today and the bid for a first tournament title since 1999 is well and truly on. Lose and it all threatens to become a bit of a damp squib. Yes, they could still go and beat France away from home, but it wouldn’t be enough to see them finish top, which has been the overriding aim from the moment they managed to topple England.

A day after the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday filed a voluminous 11,400-page chargesheet along with over 50,000 pages in digital form before a special court in Mumbai in the drugs case related to late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, actor Rhea Chakraborty’s advocate responded calling the chargesheet “a damp squib standing on foundation of inadmissible (không thể chấp nhận) evidence”.

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