| 释义 |
take the wind out of sb's sails
take the wind out of sb's sails
► F0 to make someone feel less confident or less determined to do something, usually by saying or doing something that they are not expecting: » I was all ready to tell him that the relationship was over when he greeted me with a big bunch of flowers - it rather took the wind out of my sails.Thesaurus+: ↑Discouraging and putting off |