单词 | take the wind out of somebody's sails |
释义 | take the wind out of somebody's sailstake the wind out of somebody's sails informalCONFIDENT to make someone lose their confidence, especially by saying or doing something unexpected 〔尤指以意想不到的言语或行动〕使某人丧失信心,使某人泄气 Examples from the Corpus take the wind out of somebody’s sails• Last night's defeat has taken some of the wind out of the team's sails. → take the wind out of somebody’s sails at wind1(2) |
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