get wind of

Meaning

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   to hear about sth secret or private

   We can't let Cardinal Law get wind of this until we know what we have.

   Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it. They ran with it...

In the movies · 4

• Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it. They ran with it...Watchmen2009
• Wait a minute. Wait a minute. They got wind of something they don't like.Tremors1990
• We can't let Cardinal Law get wind of this until we know what we have.Spotlight2015
• If the Press gets wind of this, the shit will hit the Fangio.Ford v Ferrari2019
• It takes them three months just to get wind something's going on.Donnie Brasco1997
• get the wind behind your back, and go out in a blaze if you got to.Juice1992
• That gets the solar wind up and that's where the protons come from.Local Hero1983
• It's a little bit drafty, but just remember that when the wind gets up here, you've got the same view that George Everest did.Everest2015

Learn it in full scenes

• Spotlight2015
  • Baron Meets Robinson for a Drink
  • Marty Baron's First News Meeting
  • Lawyers Break Down the Geoghan Case

From the same entry

• break wind
• get the wind up
• 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