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What was a “wet rag”?

Retry Correct Incorrect “Don’t be such a wet rag, come out to the sockhop on Friday!” would’ve been something you heard during the ’50s. Calling someone a “wet rag” was a 1950s way of telling them they were a wet blanket, which is probably where that term originates from in the first place.

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What was a “wet rag”?

• Someone who’s no fun
• A false newspaper article
• A snitch
• Someone who never tells the truth