wind+around
71wind somebody around your little finger — twist/wrap/wind sb around your little ˈfinger idiom (informal) to persuade sb to do anything that you want • She has always been able to twist her parents around her little finger. Main entry: ↑little fingeridiom …
72wind — I noun 1) the trees were swaying in the wind Syn: breeze, current of air, gale, hurricane, gust, draught; informal blow; literary zephyr 2) Jez got his wind back Syn: breath; informal puff II verb 1) …
73wind-blown — UK [ˈwɪnd ˌbləʊn] / US [ˈwɪnd ˌbloʊn] adjective 1) carried along by the wind 2) looking untidy because of being blown around by the wind 3) New Zealand blown down by the wind …
74wind 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 …
75wind/wrap 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 …
76wind-up — n British a provocation, teasing or deception. A London working class back formation from the verb wind someone up, which became a fashionable term in the late 1970s, spreading into general colloquial usage around 1979. (An expert at this kind of …
77ˌwind (sth) ˈdown — phrasal verb to end gradually, or to finish something gradually The party started to wind down around 2.00 am.[/ex] …
78wind tunnel — noun Date: 1911 a tunnellike passage through which air is blown at a known velocity to investigate air flow around an object (as an airplane part or model) placed in the passage …
79wind tunnel — noun A test facility through which air is forced in a controlled manner so as to study the effects of flow around airfoils, aircraft, motor cars etc …
80wrap-around — wrap a.round adj a wrap around skirt is one that you wind around your body and fasten in place …