Sentences with phrase «out of your sails when»

Just watched Chris Huhne on SKY TV News acting all indignant and self - righteous and demanding the Tories pay back the money that Lord Ashcroft has donated - however the wind was then taken comprehensively out of his sails when the interviewer asked if the Lib Dems were going to pay back the # 2 million that their donor fraudster gave their party!

But the wind went out of my sails when I read the packaging.

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On May 23, the Maersk Texas, a Danish freighter flying the U.S. flag, was sailing out of the Strait of Hormuz when it was attacked by pirates.

But when the only work Fly could find was as a Wall Street scrivener, scratching out copies of endless legal documents, Melville fled, joining a whaler sailing for the Pacific on January 3, 1841.

when you go and talk all nice and what not it really takes the wind out of my crazy sails.

The young gelding dropped out of nowhere to win the Derby, at odds of almost 13 - 1, and two weeks later — when he sailed to a 9 3/4 length victory in the Preakness Stakes — he became the newest «people's horse,» bearing upon his ample back every dreamer who ever saw himself as owning a Triple Crown winner.

Köln's unexpected and hard - won point perhaps comes as some consolation when set against the general perfection of the Bayern experience: all it takes is a little defensive laxity, some wasteful finishing, and one of the best goalkeepers in the world ends up contorted like a pretzel, watching the ball and the result sail past just out of reach.

This is the time of the year when Arsenal, and every other club, seem to be caught in the footballing equivalent of the doldrums, once the bane of every sailing ship known to man, where a relatively calm period occurs out of nowhere, and during which time no wind has the temerity to stick its nose in, and indeed prefers to disappear like ice cream in a hot oven, trapping sailing ships for lengthy periods lasting days, weeks and sometimes months, where for what seemed an eternity to their crews — nothing happened.

And when the food is spat out, scraped out of the mouth, well it may take a bit of the wind out of your sails, but I have yet to meet anyone who loves all food that's put in front of them.

When right wongers bring her up I'm say «I agree» — takes the wind right out of their sails.

He gazes out the window at icy Eel Pond and Buzzard's Bay beyond it, then throws a wistful glance at a photo of Woods Hole in summer, when he sails his wife's 41 - foot Beneteau sloop, Origins.

So remember when I said these bags are durable, well I was not kidding, they are made out of Sail Cloth which makes them sand and water resistant, which is perfect for taking my tote anywhere I go.

Right now I am based out of Biloxi, Mississippi sailing around and adventuring the Gulf of Mexico and Florida's west coast till fall when I will sail down to the Bahamas and then into the Caribbean.

They try to stop him in the courts, and when that fails, the race is on from Liverpool to New York, between Shaw's steam - powered ship and Gillespie's sail - driven former ship, with Mary aboard to look out for her father and Gillespie, and the future of ocean travel in the balance.

The sights here are sometimes marvelous, like the big moment when a whale pops out of the ocean and lands right at the door of a pirate tavern or the scenes of the misfit band's ship (It's only a model) set to sail on the high seas with the aid of computer animation.

The screenplay by Gideon Defoe (based on the first two books in his series about these characters) gets far more mileage out of these characters when they are simply mucking about — getting into arguments about the best part of a pirate's life, sailing while leaving behind red dots in the water so that their progress can be seen on a map, and otherwise doing very silly things for no reason more than that they must.

When it comes to it, the thought of watching her husband sail out to sea for the best part of a year is a heartbreaking and terrifying prospect.

She is now one of the gang, part of a nucleus that never changes even when minor characters drift in and out at restaurants, cocktail parties, lazy afternoons at the Winslows» or at the beach, nights playing charades, sailing in my little sailboat, Johnny's ninth birthday, skinny - dipping in the ocean, or sitting under the stars listening to Verdi.

The white belly followed, tapering, and then, trailing behind, the fan of its tail and long parallel legs of crimson lacquer, the toes of each of them closed and streamlined, but the whole shape flattening, when the band of sunlight was crossed, into a two - dimensional shadow once more, enormously displayed across the rectangle of cloth, as distinct and nearly as immobile, so languid was its flight, as an emblematic bird on a sail; then sliding across it and along the nearly still corridor of air between the invisible eaves and the chimneys, dipping along the curl of the lane like a sigh of wonder, and, at last, a furlong away slowly pivoting, at a gradual tilt, out of sight.

On one particular voyage she was a day out of Sourabaya, Java enroute to San Francisco with a cargo of copra when her sails, gaff and halyards were carried away in a heavy squall.

It is especially useful when sailing out of the southern ports such as Port of Los Angeles where large ships are in great abundance.

When we told our friends and parents, five years ago, that we are selling the house and buying a sailboat and then getting the kids out of school, leaving work and moving on the boat, sailing from island to island with no particular plans, they looked at us with a mixture of worry, disbelief and condemnation.

There is a cool slow - motion mechanic at work that lets you catch a breath as you still move at the same speed but when enemies are hit, in or out of slow - mo, their ragdoll physics take over and many just go sailing back as if they were hit by a semi truck.

The new trailer gives us a look at a «fast» button that pops up when sailing to take some of the tedium out of the endless ocean, and there's been talk of a reconfigured Tingle Tuner accessory (which, in the original game, required a Game Boy Advance and a special link cable to use).

When out on voyages where you're not under threat of other ships, it's worth it to spend some time as a crew messing with your sails to see how fast your ship can turn at different speeds.