take the wind out of one's sails

take the wind out of one's sails

• • 先发制人；抢先占上风；(以猝不及防的行动)使人狼狈不堪；夺去某人优势
  • 【航海学】抢他船的风路

• yes-man
• hot words
• set spurs to
• sodwork
• dipnetted
• flower show
• radiophobia
• -land
• muthmannite
• syntagms
• hilliest
• plenipotent
• be on one's mettle
• compere
• grandfather
• Discrimination Learnings
• starcrafts
• rope
• liberas
• Whitsun Day
• zinc formate
• demob
• ghostliest
• Isr.
• pillar buoy
• psychomotors
• like a bear garden
• balance-the-budgeteer
• progression
• inverse of a number
• archive
• fedayeen
• mobile station
• be driven to desperation
• surf beat
• som-
• procrastinative
• militarist
• sweatiness
• equimolecular
• electronic neutrino
• ulnae
• codicillary
• cold patch
• long-player
• high milling
• leave options open
• bougies
• affrightment
• divulsor
• garcinias
• subspeciation
• game art
• permanent assets
• partakable
• ferrovanadium
• squished
• closedown
• gemfibrozil
• body check
• determinest
• harmfulness
• liquefiable
• of easy virtue
• birckleness
• WEA
• emasculater
• lie at anchor
• circumpolar
• champy
• Ibizan Hounds
• microstrips
• Rhodospirillaceae
• shoot （或kill）the messenger
• time after time
• food faddists
• squaredom
• be / seem / look nothing like sb / sth
• Comtists
• hypospadiases
• mail house
• bustard quails
• quantum electronics
• synovectomies
• USN
• rhodes grasses
• record storage mark
• interspersions
• aesthetic distance
• Cribrariaceae
• the whole enchilada
• hegemonism
• rhinopneumonitis
• throw sth↔open (to sb)
• radiotechnology
• drivel(l)ing
• adenitis
• retornados
• blanking pulse
• bank lines