the kiss of death

(informal)

an event or action that causes something to fail or be spoiled (often + for ) Asking Jenny to cook is the kiss of death for any dinner party.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Meuric	-	Welsh
'Elifelet	-	Biblical Hebrew
Koharu	ko-hah-ṙoo	Japanese
Alen	AHL-en (Croatian)	Croatian, Slovene
Henrietta	hen-ree-ET-ə (English)	English, Hungarian, Finnish, Swedish, Dutch
Stacey	STAY-see	English