get wind
verb- The story soon got wind.
- The Algonquins held a council and resolved to appease the spirit of the net by marrying him to two such very young girls that he could have no complaint on that score for the future. They did so, and the fishing turned out all that could be wished. The thing got wind among their neighbors the Hurons, and they adopted the custom.1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 147:
- Synonyms
- take wind
- Related terms
- get wind of