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Meaning: (idiomatic)Attention to/Focus on or awareness of current/prevailing trends, as of opinion or power.A crafty man-of-the-world keeps hisfinger to the wind.1986January 26, ROBERT REINHOLD, “ADOBE'S SEER: B. J. PEVEHOUSE; DIGGING IN AS OIL PRICES SLIDE”, inNY Times: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 hisfinger to the windand decided it was not going to last much longer.2011, David Leheny, “Four Cultures of Japanese Politics”, in Victoria Bestor, Theodore C. Bestor, Akiko Yamagata, editors,Routledge Handbook of Japanese Culture and Society[1]:The DPJ, in this view, had pursued a similar path: riding to power on the back of telegenic politicians and with afinger-to-the-windfidelity to public opinion polls, the party had allowed, in effect, the mass media to dictate outcomes2015February 20, Stephanie Merry, “When it comes to Oscar predictions, whom can you trust?”, inWashington Post:How they choose: They hold up afinger to the windsof recent awards results2017May 25, “The Tory manifesto doesn't add up – and school breakfasts prove it”, inThe Guardian:This is a reform that the ancien regime, always with afinger to the windof public opinion, spotted as an electoral nightmare and ducked.
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