take the wind out of one's sails
отбить охоту, расстроить чьи-либо планы, "выбить почву из-под ног"
Ron applied for a job of a computer programmer but was rejected, and it took the wind out of his sails.
Другие идиомы:
- take a leak
- take a spill
- take up (clothes)
- take up where one left off
- take one's cue from (someone)
- take its toll
- take to (something)
- take the Fifth
- take one's hat off to (someone)
- take (something) to heart
- take over (something)
- take one's own life
- take care of (something)
- take (something) on faith
- take a whack at (something)