get the wind up

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to become / be frightened about sth

   He's probably got the wind up.

   - Everyone needs to get out. - BUTLER: Who the fuck is he?

In the movies · 2

• He's probably got the wind up.19172019
• - Everyone needs to get out. - BUTLER: Who the fuck is he?19172019
• He really had the wind up. You can still smell the glue where he joined it.The Stranger1946
• That gets the solar wind up and that's where the protons come from.Local Hero1983

From the same entry

• break wind
• get wind of
• in the wind
• like the wind
• put the wind up
• take the wind out of sails
• a wind winds of change
• throw caution to the wind
• a following wind
• it's an ill wind
• sail close to the wind
• a straw in the wind