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[1] |
breeze
,
air current
,
current of air
,
zephyr
,
puff
,
gust
,
breath
,
draught
,
light air
,
current (of air)
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[2] |
puffery
,
bombast
,
rodomontade
,
bluster
,
boasting
,
braggadocio
,
vain speech
,
blather
,
(idle/empty) talk
,
fustian
,
nonsense
,
twaddle
,
humbug
,
babble
,
gibberish
,
(Colloq) gab
,
hot air
,
claptrap
,
hogwash
,
rot
,
hooey
,
boloney
,
(Slang) (Brit) load of (old) cobblers
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[3] |
gas
,
flatulence
,
windiness
,
flatus
,
borborygmus (stomach rumbling (as from gas))
,
heartburn
,
(Colloq) (Slang) fart
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[4] |
before the wind
,
malarkey
,
malarky
,
(Nautical) downwind
,
off the wind
,
idle words
,
jazz
,
nothingness
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[5] |
tip
,
break wind
,
(Colloq) (Slang) fart
,
lead
,
steer
,
confidential information
,
hint
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[6] |
wind instrument
,
get/have wind of
,
hear of
,
learn of
,
come to know
,
pick up
,
be made/become aware of
,
gather
,
understand
,
hear on the grapevine
,
(Colloq) hear tell of
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[7] |
get/have the wind up
,
fart
,
farting
,
take fright
,
become frightened/afraid/apprehensive
,
flatus
,
breaking wind
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[8] |
winding
,
in the wind
,
around
,
twist
,
about
,
rumoured
,
in the air
,
detectable
,
discernible
,
discoverable
,
imminent
,
impending
,
approaching
,
close (at hand)
,
about to happen/take place/occur
,
afoot
,
in the offing
,
near
,
on the way
,
(Colloq) (Brit) on the cards
,
(US) in the cards
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[9] |
off the wind
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[10] |
on the/a wind
,
(Nautical) upwind
,
windward
,
to the wind
,
into (the teeth/the eye of) the wind
,
near the wind
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[11] |
put the wind up
,
scare
,
frighten
,
alarm
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[12] |
sail close/near to the wind
,
take risks
,
throw caution to the winds
,
play with fire
,
skate on thin ice
,
take (one's) life in (one's) hands
,
(Colloq) stick (one's) neck out
,
(Slang) go for broke
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[13] |
take the wind out of (someone's) sails
,
deflate (someone)
,
disconcert (someone)
,
destroy (someone's) advantage
,
ruin (someone's) superiority/supremacy/ascendancy
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