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get wind of

verb as in scent

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Nefarious villains get wind of this and plot to rob the entire party.

“I get wind of this video on Instagram, and it changed my whole world,” she said, “because I had felt completely alone.”

While staying at a hotel in the British seaside resort of Bournemouth, they stumble across the witches — who have convened under the cover of a child-cruelty prevention charity — and get wind of their murderous conspiracy.

After Melanie and the MIS team get wind of the insidious pleasures to be had from Bliss, a new sex-enhancing drug that is quickly pulling countless users into its undertow, her remit expands into something much larger and more pernicious: stop Bliss from pulling every addict in America into its force field, thereby turning Health Net Secure into its own police state.

“But I couldn’t ask the Palace to find me one. Some courtier would get wind of my condition and leak it to the press and the next thing I knew my todger would be all over the front pages.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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