Higher rates tend to pour water on gold fever.

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"Readers enjoy reading about drama, so the uplifting covers of celebs overcoming adversity by nature tend to pour water on the drama, " said Michelle Lee, editor in chief of In Touch for the last two years.

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Some may welcome Downing Street's decision to pour cold water on the corporation tax campaign.

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In deciding to raise short-term interest rates by half a point, to 6.5%, on May 16th, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has clearly decided to pour cold water on America's red-hot economy.

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While we can expect the Obamacare bashers to pour cold water on this good news, there is no denying that the law is paying some dividends in the critically important effort to bend the cost curve in healthcare delivery.

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It is an amazing visual demonstration to watch someone put the big rocks in first, shake the pebbles, and then the sand around the rocks, and then pour the water in on top and have all four jars settle together.

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There are cases where people boil water to pour on themselves, he said.

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That is why with tight labour, rising energy costs and abundant money, it would be better to pour on more boiling water.

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