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knocking the wind out of someone's sails

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.30 in modern English

Syllables
knock-ing the wind out of -some-one's -sails
IPA
56
Scrabble Score
33
Letters
5
Syllables
17
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of knock the wind out of someone's sails

Questions

What does knocking the wind out of someone's sails mean?
present participle and gerund of knock the wind out of someone's sails

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