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knock the wind out of someone's sails

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

Syllables
knock- the wind out of -some-one's -sails
IPA
52
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
5
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of take the wind out of someone's sails.

Inflected Forms

knocks the wind out of someone's sails (present, singular) knocking the wind out of someone's sails (participle, present) knocked the wind out of someone's sails (participle, past) knocked the wind out of someone's sails (past)

Questions

What does knock the wind out of someone's sails mean?
Alternative form of take the wind out of someone's sails.

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