kill-joy

“No, I think that’s the tour group upstairs,” said Miller, who gets used to being a kill-joy.

Even the official Beijing News newspaper took issue with Xinhua's kill-joy attitude, asking, "what's wrong with giving people a holiday to express themselves, joke around and find some release?"

Scrooge is the anti-festive man brought into the circle of festivity, the kill-joy transformed into the joyful player.

The researchers came up with a good name for this one: “Kill-Joy Thinking.”

When we think of what we’re going to spend our retirement savings on, we tend to think more about the fun stuff — spending our hard-earned cash on medical expenses feels like a kill-joy.