killjoy

killjoy

Someone who makes other people less happy, excited, or enthusiastic about some event or thing. A: "We really should be studying for our exams instead of throwing a party, you know." B: "Oh, Marcie, you're such a killjoy." My husband can be a real killjoy sometimes, always shooting down the fun things I suggest for our family vacations.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

killjoy

n. a person who takes the fun out of things for other people; a party-pooper. Don’t be such a killjoy!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a buzz kill
  • buzzkill
  • sour on
  • sour on (someone or something)
  • be wild about (someone or something)
  • jacked (up)
  • get carried away with (someone or something)
  • get (one's) rocks off on (something)
  • in circulation
  • in(to) circulation
References in periodicals archive
"Happy to have it on the agenda so long as we aren't going to Wayne become killjoys," replied committee chair, Cllr Wayne Davies.
Call for action over jet ski bather danger
Wunker notes that after becoming a mother she did not "spend any time thinking critically." And yet, in this book she moves beyond critical thinking to productive, world-making thinking that feminist killjoys produce.
NOTES FROM A FEMINIST KILLJOY: Essays on Everyday Life
Bah humbug to the short-sighted killjoys. Don't they realise the winner of the race is saved from the abattoir?
Woolly thinking; RECORD View
CENTRAL News anchorman Bob Warman is a bit of a pantomime killjoy. Oh yes, he is.
Oh no he won't be coming to my panto
He stresses that the organisation is not a killjoy, but says it has witnessed first-hand the devastation that gambling addictions can bring.
No fanfare for our casino neighbour; GAMBLING: Salvation Army warns of the problems
KILLJOY Walt Disney bosses have forced pupils at an island school to cancel a sell-out Lion King concert.
Disney kill off kids' Lion King
North West minister Phil Woolas said: "These are not killjoy measures.
New binge drink rules unveiled
These killjoy bosses have clearly gone over to the dark side.
Sunday Mercury SAYS: Woolies humbug
But there were yet darker clouds on the horizon with the announcement from those killjoy tennis chiefs at the All England Club that there were to be no skimpy outfits on the courts this year.
THE Great British downpour; MAN OF THE PEOPLE
But killjoy customs officers have refused to allow the stunt to go ahead.
Card idea own goal
Now, I don't want to be a killjoy, but I feel that I should point out that the beer in question is almost certainly not Black Sheep as your caption suggests: all five ales produced by the Black Sheep brewery in Masham are, despite their name, brown or amber in colour.
Black beer blues
Nobody wants to be the killjoy parent when it comes to music.
Hip-hop for kids: one journalist's ideas for introducing young children to the music and culture--without the sex
The most popular persona so far seems to be Killjoy Kerry, as depicted in jokes about his long face and dour demeanor.
Probing Kerry for punch lines
HULL boss Brian Little slammed Bristol Rovers' killjoy tactics after watching his side slip to a goalless bore draw at Boothferry Park.
Football: Brian fury at Rovers; HULL 0 BRISTOL R 0
At the same time, Latin Americans claimed it as Latin American, and continental Europeans saw it as kin to their style of indirect soccer, based on possession, short passing, and territorial buildup (the Italia defensive game being a killjoy perversion).
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