get wind
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get wind (third-person singular simple present gets wind, present participle getting wind, simple past got wind, past participle (UK) got wind or (US) gotten wind)
- (dated, idiomatic, intransitive) To be divulged; to become public.
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 147:
- 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.
- The story soon got wind.