take the wind out of someone's sails

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- To reduce or destroy someone's confidence, enthusiasm, or self-assurance.
- To blunt or diminish another person's advantage, momentum, or rhetorical force.

Examples:

EN: take the wind out of someone's sails
HI: उतार लो गले से किसी के चेन
EN: 10. to take the wind out of someone's sails
HI: किसी का जाना जड़ों से दूर

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