wind someone a bonny pirn — To set a fine problem for someone, involve someone in difficulties • • • Main Entry: ↑pirn … Useful english dictionary
wind someone up Brit. — wind someone up Brit. informal tease or irritate someone. → winds … English new terms dictionary
wind someone around your little finger — twist/wind/someone around your little finger informal phrase to easily persuade someone to do what you want She’s a woman who can wrap men around her little finger. Thesaurus: to encourage someone to do or to not do somethingsynonym … Useful english dictionary
wind someone up — vb British to provoke, tease, deceive someone. A London working class usage which became fashionable at the end of the 1970s in raffish circles. It described the sort of straightfaced manipulation of a victim which discomfits increas ingly; the… … Contemporary slang
wind someone around one's little finger — ► twist (or wind or wrap) someone around one s little finger be able to make someone do whatever one wants. Main Entry: ↑little finger … English terms dictionary
Someone Is Standing Outside — Álbum de Bill Medley Publicación Abril de 1970 Grabación 1969 1970 Género(s) Blue eyed soul, R B D … Wikipedia Español
wind — 1 /wInd/ noun 1 AIR (C, U) moving air, especially when it moves strongly or quickly in a current: a 70 mile an hour wind | branches swaying in the wind | the wind blows: A gentle wind was blowing through the trees. | strong/high winds: The… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
wind — I. /wɪnd / (say wind) noun 1. air in natural motion, as along the earth s surface. 2. a gale; storm; hurricane. 3. any stream of air, as that produced by a bellows, a fan, etc. 4. air impregnated with the scent of an animal or animals. 5. a hint… …
wind — wind1 [wɪnd] noun 1》 the perceptible natural movement of the air, especially in the form of a current blowing from a particular direction. ↘the rush of air caused by a fast moving body. 2》 breath as needed in physical exertion, speech,… … English new terms dictionary
wind up — 1) PHRASAL VERB When you wind up an activity, you finish it or stop doing it. [V P n (not pron)] The President is about to wind up his visit to Somalia... [V P n (not pron)] Winding up the debate, she said: It would immediately put up interest… … English dictionary
