의미: assails

★as·sail〔L 「…에 덤벼들다」의 뜻에서〕 vt. 《문어》

1 <사람·물건·장소 등을> (무력으로) 맹렬히 공격하다, 맹공하다, 습격하다(attack); <남을 질문·비난 등으로> 공격하다, 공박하다, 몰아 세우다, 비난하다 《with, by》
▶ assail a castle 성을 공격하다
▶ 《assail+목+전+명》 He assailed me with questions. 그는 질문을 퍼부어 나를 몰아 세웠다.

2 <일·난국 등에> 과감히 부딪치다[맞서다]
▶ assail a task[difficulty] 과업[곤란]에 과감히 맞서다

3 <의혹·공포 등이 사람·마음을> 엄습하다, 괴롭히다
▶ 《assail+목+전+명》 He was assailed with[by] doubts. 그는 의혹에 휩싸였다.
assail·a·ble a. 공격[습격]할 수 있는
▷ assáult n., v.; assáilant n., a.

take the wind out of someone's sails 관용구

knock the wind out of his sails

cause him to slow down, cause him to quit, knock him down a peg (see knock you down a peg) If you tell him his letter is full of errors, you'll knock the wind out of his sails.

take the wind out of one's sails

Idiom(s): take the wind out of one's sails

Theme: CHALLENGE

to challenge someone's boasting or arrogance. (Informal.)
• John was bragging about how much money he earned until he learned that most of us make more. That took the wind out of his sails,
• Learning that one has been totally wrong about something can really take the wind out of one's sails.

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v. phr. To surprise someone by doing better or by catching him in an error. John came home boasting about the fish he had caught; it took the wind out of his sails when he found his little sister had caught a bigger one. Dick took the wind out of Bob's sails by showing him where he was wrong.
Compare: TAKE THE STARCH OUT OF².

trim one's sails

trim one's sails
Modify one's stand, adapt to circumstances, as in His advisers told him to trim his sails before he alienated voters and bungled the election completely. This metaphoric expression alludes to adjusting a ship's sails to take full advantage of prevailing winds. [Late 1700s]

take the wind out of (one's) sails

1. To abate one's enthusiasm, excitement, or absolute angle (about something). She anticipation she'd won, but back I told her the letter was a scam, it absolutely took the wind out of her sails. It took the wind out of his sails to apprentice that about bisected of his benefit would go to taxes.2. To bankrupt one of an advantage; to accomplish a bearings abortive or adverse for one. The crowd's aural acclaim for the home aggregation took the wind out of their opponents' sails. Learning that the bang-up was absolution Jenny accord a angle for the activity as able-bodied absolutely took the wind out of my sails.Learn more: of, out, sail, take, wind

take the wind out of someone's sails

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take the wind out of someone's sail

AMERICANIf article takes the wind out of your sails, it makes you aback feel abundant beneath assured or bent in what you are accomplishing or saying. The disappointment of that defeat took the wind out of our sails for a while. She aback apologized and it took the wind out of my sails. He absent the attempt and it seemed to booty a little wind out of his sail.Learn more: of, out, sail, take, wind

take the wind out of someone's sails

annul a being by accidentally anticipating an activity or remark. 1977 Eva Figes Nelly's Version She could so calmly accept taken the wind out of my sails and put me in my abode for good. Apprentice more: of, out, sail, take, wind

take the wind out of someone's sails, to

To put addition at a disadvantage; to stop someone, actually or figuratively. This term, which alludes to adverse a sailing barge by sailing to windward of it and thereby annexation it of the wind, was acclimated actually until about 1800. Sir Walter Scott acclimated it figuratively in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822): “He would booty the wind out of the captain of every gallant.”Learn more: of, out, take, wind

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take the wind out of someone's sails 관용구

knock the wind out of his sails

take the wind out of one's sails

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trim one's sails

take the wind out of (one's) sails

take the wind out of someone's sails

take the wind out of someone's sail

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