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Examples
1. So, maybe you go to a restaurant and the food isn't very good, and you say: 'Oh, that restaurant was a bit of a damp squib.'
2. Can you think of an example of a 'damp squib'?
3. One other thing to point out about this expression 'damp squib': a lot of people get confused because the word 'squib' is not used in modern English very often, and they think it's 'squid'.
4. We say, 'damp squib' with a 'b'.
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