straw in the wind 的定义
- A small sign that hints of something that is about to happen: “It is difficult to tell whether the new regime will relax censorship, although a recent remark by the minister of culture may be a straw in the wind.”
straw in the wind 近义词
indication of coming event
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- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
- Most of it is taken up by a graphic inviting the visitor to participate in the 2016 online presidential straw poll.
- This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
- There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.
- Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
- The man that giveth heed to lying visions, is like to him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind.