{"id":1966,"date":"2017-03-07T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2017-03-07T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T09:55:36","slug":"wind-idioms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wind-idioms\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind idioms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some idiomatic expressions using the word &#8216;wind&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>Knock the wind out of somebody<\/h3>\n<p>To knock the wind out of somebody is to make them breathless.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The blow knocked the wind out of me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Catch \/ get the wind of someone<\/h3>\n<p>To catch or get the wind of someone is to be aware of their presence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the deer catches wind of us, he will run into the woods.<\/li>\n<li>How could he have got wind of our plans? (= How could he have got information about our plans?)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>A lot of wind<\/h3>\n<p>If something is a lot of wind, it is empty talk or boasting<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The challenger says that he will knock out the champion in the first round, but that is a lot of wind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some idiomatic expressions using the word &#8216;wind&#8217;. Knock the wind out of somebody To knock the wind out of somebody is to make them breathless. The blow knocked the wind out of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[411],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","tag-wind-idioms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1967,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}