"You know how to take the wind out of a man's sails."

The news seemed to have taken the wind out of everybody's sails.

He had rather taken the wind out of her sails.

"I was thinking your news must have taken the wind out of his sails."

The goal, it seems clear, was to take the wind out of the Americans' sails.

"It put fire in them and took the wind out of our sails."

That seemed to take the wind out of his sails.

But the Emergency took the wind out of his sails.

"Then Louisiana took the wind right out of our sails."

"Something like this takes the wind out of their sails."