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took the wind out of someone's sails

<span class="searchmatch">took</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> <span class="searchmatch">sails</span> simple past <span class="searchmatch">of</span> take <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> <span class="searchmatch">sails</span>...


take the wind out of someone's sails

someone&#039;s <span class="searchmatch">sails</span>, simple past <span class="searchmatch">took</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> <span class="searchmatch">sails</span>, past participle taken <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> <span class="searchmatch">sails</span>) (idiomatic) To discourage <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> greatly;...


den Wind aus den Segeln nehmen

den <span class="searchmatch">Wind</span> aus den Segeln genommen, past subjunctive nähme den <span class="searchmatch">Wind</span> aus den Segeln, auxiliary haben) [with dative] take <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> <span class="searchmatch">sails</span> Die...


take the piss

extract <span class="searchmatch">the</span> urine take <span class="searchmatch">the</span> mickey rip <span class="searchmatch">the</span> piss piss-taker to mock or ridicule (transitive) piss and <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> take <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> <span class="searchmatch">sails</span> ^ Quinion...


take aback

taken aback by a change in <span class="searchmatch">the</span> relative direction <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span>, but they are laid aback purposely by <span class="searchmatch">the</span> crew. Likewise, <span class="searchmatch">someone</span> may say he was taken aback...


knock

daylights out of knock the persimmon knock the stuffing <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> knock <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> <span class="searchmatch">sails</span> knock together knock under knock up knock wood knocky...


lay on

page 166: So <span class="searchmatch">the</span> lad went back again to <span class="searchmatch">the</span> north <span class="searchmatch">wind</span>, and said that <span class="searchmatch">the</span> goat wasn&#039;t worth anything, and he wasn&#039;t going to be done <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> his meal, not...


head

talk over <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> head talk <span class="searchmatch">someone&#039;s</span> head off tech-head tech head tetched in <span class="searchmatch">the</span> head T-head <span class="searchmatch">the</span> fish rots from <span class="searchmatch">the</span> head <span class="searchmatch">the</span> head fred <span class="searchmatch">the</span> sky will...


back

square sail) To brace <span class="searchmatch">the</span> yards so that <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">wind</span> presses on <span class="searchmatch">the</span> front <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> <span class="searchmatch">sail</span>, to slow <span class="searchmatch">the</span> ship. (nautical, <span class="searchmatch">of</span> an anchor) To lay <span class="searchmatch">out</span> a second, smaller...


storm

storm <span class="searchmatch">out</span> storm <span class="searchmatch">out</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">the</span> blocks yarnstorm to have strong <span class="searchmatch">winds</span> and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow to make (<span class="searchmatch">someone</span> or something)...