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take the wind out of your sails

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To take the wind out of your sails is to remove your confidence suddenly. That took the wind out of your sails.

It is usually done by one remark rather than by an argument. A becalmed boat is the picture, since sails without wind leave a vessel going nowhere at all.

Definitions of take the wind out of your sails

  1. 1phrasetake the wind out of your sailsTo take away your confidence suddenly.C1

    “One question from the back was enough to take the wind out of your sails.”

take the wind out of your sails is a phrase.

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