clip (someone's) wings
ограничивать или сдерживать кого-либо, "подрезать крылья"
The company decided to clip the manager's wings and took away his expense account.
Другие идиомы:
- wing it
- spread one's wings
- under the wings of (someone)
- try out one's wings
- take (someone) under one's wings
- albatross (around someone's neck)
- as a duck takes to water
- as bald as a coot
- as crazy as a loon
- as dead as a dodo
- as easy as duck soup
- as free as a bird
- as graceful as a swan
- as happy as a lark
- as hoarse as a crow