It is my experience that the straw just fizzles and goes out like a damp squib.
One only has to look at what a damp squib insider trading has turned out to be recently.
At least to some extent that will be a damp squib.
I am saying that not many will be needed, because 1992 will be a damp squib.
On the whole, it was a damp squib.
Almost 12 months on, that bonfire has not happened—indeed, it has been a damp squib.
What we have had today has been a damp squib.
I must say that it was something of a damp squib, and that we did not rehearse this question.
