| 单词 | take the wind out of sb's sails |
| 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 |
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