wind

wind something (up) (into something)

to coil something up into a ball or similar shape. Tony wound all the string up into a ball. Wind up the string into a ball. Please wind this into a ball.

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a straw in the wind be in the wind be scattered to the four winds be spitting in the wind be three sheets to the wind both sheets in the wind break wind end up end up doing four sheets in the wind get a second wind get a/ second wind get the wind up get wind of gone with the wind Hoist your sail when the wind is fair in the wind

It's an ill wind It's an ill wind that blows nobody good knock the wind out of sails leave to twist in the wind like the wind one's second wind out of breath reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall run like the wind sail close to the wind see which way the wind is blowing sow the wind and reap the whirlwind straw in the wind swift as an arrow take the wind out of sails three sheets in the wind throw caution to the wind

to the four winds twist around little finger twist in the wind which way the wind is blowing wind wind around wind back wind down wind in wind into wind off wind onto wind through wind up wind up with