wind up

Meaning

1. Oxford75% of films

   to find yourself in a particular place or situation

2. Oxford5% of films

   to bring sth such as a speech or meeting to an end

3. Oxford5% of films

   to deliberately say or do sth in order to annoy sb

In the movies · 74

• We investigate Olympia, wind up dead, it all gets tied to Haney,My Fellow Americans1996
• How did anybody that pretty wind up in Lonesome Dove?Lonesome Dove1989
• I ain't gonna wind up with a gimpy leg, am I?Lifeboat1944
• He's probably got the wind up.19172019
• Here's the wind-up... and the pitch!Chicken Little2005
• Snitches wind up in ditches.This Is 402012
• Like a wind-up toy.The Devil's Advocate1997
• You looking to wind up in an abortion clinic?Whatever Works2009

Learn it in full scenes

• My Fellow Americans1996
  • Golf Talk Turns Awkward
  • The Missing Appointment Log
  • Tanner Summons the Presidents
• Whatever Works2009
  • Boris Breaks the Fourth Wall
  • Boris Panics and Jumps Out the Window
  • Boris Takes Melodie In

From the same entry

• break wind
• get wind of
• 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

More phrasal verbs

• come up
• go out
• listen up
• start out
• break into
• get off
• take after
• settle for
• fall out
• hang up on
• catch up with
• be cut out for