take the wind out of someone's sails
расстроить чьи-либо планы, выбить почву из под ног, обескуражить
Пример использования идиомы take the wind out of someone's sails:
Kathy's answer was so cool, so rich in bravado that it took the wind out of his sails.
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Другие идиомы:
- take a turn for the worse
- take up where one left off
- take up (somewhere)
- take (someone or something) wrong
- take (something) the wrong way
- take the plunge
- take (someone or somewhere) by storm
- to take off
- take (someone's) part
- take in
- take care of number one
- take the bull by the horns
- take the initiative to (do something)
- take leave of one's senses
- take on too much