Watch the first half and laugh your total head-off, but at the second half, try to enjoy a damp squib!
The core of the book - and subtitle - turns out to be a brief, damp squib.
It is to create an explosion in our ranks, whereas, in fact, all they have been able to do is to produce a damp squib.
If there ever was a damp squib it was that, because it had no relation whatever to realities.
The whole thing has become a damp squib.
Its intentions—to be generous to those who drew up the declaration—may have been sincere, but it has proved to be a political damp squib.
The much-trumpeted deregulation initiative is a damp squib; it is a mouse.
I must say that it was something of a damp squib, and that we did not rehearse this question.
