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.

The wind came out of my sails in a rush.

"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.

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

She felt all the wind go out of her sails.