rain on one's parade

Spoil one's plans, as in The minority party in the legislature has tried hard to rain on the speaker's parade, but so far his agenda has prevailed . This expression conjures up the image of a downpour ruining a celebration such as a parade. [c. 1900]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Freyja	FRAY-ah (Norse Mythology)	Icelandic, Norse Mythology
Marlena	mahr-LEEN-ə (English), mahr-LE-nah (Polish)	English, Polish
Tamari	-	Georgian
Ulderico	-	Italian
Krishna	KRISH-na (Hinduism)	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
Madge	[mædʒ]