throw to the winds

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throw to the winds (third-person singular simple present throws to the winds, present participle throwing to the winds, simple past threw to the winds, past participle thrown to the winds)

  1. Alternative form of throw to the wind
    • 2013, P.-J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, →ISBN:
      I deduce the general consequences of the future from the facts of the present; some leaves from the book of Destiny that I throw to the winds.