take the shine off

take the shine off something

(informal)

if something that happens takes the shine off something pleasant, it spoils it or makes it less enjoyable Having my purse stolen took the shine off my visit to Dublin.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Sead	-	Bosnian
Temple	TEM-pəl	English (Rare)
Yvonne	ee-VON (French), i-VAWN (English), ee-VAWN (German)	French, English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Praveena	-	Tamil, Indian, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi
Petro	PE-tro (Esperanto)	Ukrainian, Esperanto
Zia	-	Arabic