body blow

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The death of its leader was a body-blow to the party.
领袖的逝世对党是巨大的损失。
The withdrawal of the subsidy dealt a body-blow to the club's plans for larger accommodation.
取消补贴对俱乐部扩大招待设备的计划是一个严重的打击。
His election was a body-blow to the belief that whites would not vote for a black candidate, and paves the way for other non-white candidates in the future.
他的胜利重挫白人不会为一名黑人候选人投票的这个观念，并且为将来其他非白人候选人铺平了道路。

Such a freeze would represent a body-blow to the Chinese government's efforts to close the "technology gap" between Western capabilities and their own.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: "US Relations With China"
For Deloitte the threat is that this affair becomes to it what Enron was to Arthur Andersen—a body-blow from which its reputation never recovers.
ECONOMIST: The bankrupt group's auditors are now in the firing line
No doubt an Israeli body-blow to the Arabist worldview will compel Kaplan and other new members of the anti-Israel camp to reconsider their views.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Israel and the 'realists'

something that causes serious problems and disappointment for a person trying to do something

A body blow is something that causes great disappointment and difficulty to someone who is trying to achieve something.