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For pronunciation and definitions of 出端を折る – see the following entry.
出鼻でばな
[verb] (idiomatic) to spoil someone's start; to kill someone's enthusiasm; to take the wind out of someone's sails
(This term, 出端を折る, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)