finger to the wind
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An attention to or focus on or awareness of current or prevailing trends, public opinion,…
An attention to or focus on or awareness of current or prevailing trends, public opinion, or shifting circumstances.
- A crafty man-of-the-world keeps his finger to the wind.
- I do not want to hold our fingers to the wind. I want to see us make solid, substantial decisions based on facts, not based on anecdote, if you will.
- At the height of the great oil boom, in the frenzied summer of 1981 when everybody said oil prices could go nowhere but up, the crafty old Texas wildcatter put his finger to the wind and decided it was not going to last much longer.
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