"rain on one's parade" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-rain on one's parade.ogg Forms: rains on one's parade [present, singular, third-person], raining on one's parade [participle, present], rained on one's parade [participle, past], rained on one's parade [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rain on one's parade (third-person singular simple present rains on one's parade, present participle raining on one's parade, simple past and past participle rained on one's parade)
  1. (idiomatic) To spoil someone's celebration. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: buzzkill, dampener, killjoy, party pooper, spoilsport, wet blanket Translations (to spoil someone's celebration): ünneprontó (Hungarian), elrontja az örömét (Hungarian), lloverle el desfile (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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