Everyone's tried it, so it's lost its punch.
Among other things, it has lost its punch to semantic devaluation.
In the one hospital where antibiotic use had gone down, however, Cipro had lost little of its punch, and it had even become more effective in killing Pseudomonas.
The truth is it's been talked about so much that it's lost some of its punch, its power, its depth.
Now Carrie-Brody-Carrie-Brody-Carrie-Brody comes off like a slogan that has lost its punch; by the end, it felt like an uninspired Don Draper pitch. .
If you stumble over jokes and mess up the words, or have to start over a particular joke, it'll lose some of its punch.
"If it was one of us, it would've taken days and would've lost its punch".
Like many others before it, the latest generation of malaria drugs is losing its punch.
(A running "that's what she said" joke between me and my wife lost its punch when the 3-year-old started in on it).
It is no wonder that the prolonged Fed tightening has lost its punch and takes so long to affect the home mortgage market.
Its punch line comes to fruition".
