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take the gilt off the gingerbread idiomUKliterary to spoil something that is in every other way enjoyable: 使(某事物)失去吸引力 We had a great trip, but our flight home was badly delayed, which took the gilt off the gingerbread.我们的旅行很愉快,但返航的飞机严重晚点令人扫兴。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher drive a wedge between someoneidiom dry rot eat eat away at something erode foul put something out of jointidiom queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage seismic sour wreck
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