WAY THE WIND BLOWS, WHICH Definition & Meaning

way the wind blows, which

which way the wind blows

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, how the wind blows . How matters stand, as in Let's see which way the wind blows before we decide , or He's going to find out how the wind blows concerning a promotion . This metaphoric term for the course of events first appeared in John Heywood's proverb collection of 1546.

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Like a poet, he extolls the virtues of the northwest wind and wonders how city dwellers can live without "knowing which way the wind blows, which way the rain falls, how the sea surges, the land lives and the forests die."

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