be in the wind
be three sheets in the wind

He had known what was in the wind, of course.

You must have known something like this was in the wind!

Thought I'd take a back seat and see what was in the wind.

"Well, something like that seemed to be in the wind last time I saw you," said her father.

There seems to be little doubt that change is in the wind.

He saw then that something unusual was in the wind.

The point had broken off and would still be in the wound.

Once through the hole they were in the wind, out under the sky.

Experimentation along these lines has been in the wind for some time now.

They, being commonly out of doors, heard whatever was in the wind.

Wondering if something was in the wind, Marcus called after him.

When there was any little hint of anything being in the wind, he got lost directly.

She'd not yet set foot outdoors but she could tell something different was in the wind.

It cut him, and the salt on his clothes was in the wound.

And he told her what was in the wind.

A couple of days later an incident occurred that made him certain something was in the wind.

Something important must be in the wind for two to be needed.

Now they know that something illegal is in the wind!"

Thus, it seems a fair guess that no drastic change is in the wind.

If something this big was in the wind, what right did they have to let Lexie take over?

Another investigator added: "There's no question that the real one is in the wind."

Something was in the wind, but Clyde could not uncover it.

The strange perfume of another world's foliage was in the wind.

The true heart here is in the wind solos not the piano.

Tommy saw him go, wondered what was in the wind and, following directions, made his way home.

To be sure, on the day he married his plump widow, it was easy to see he was three sheets in the wind.

Captain Cuttle knew it for the chest he had left at Mrs MacStinger's house, and looking, candle in hand, at Bunsby more attentively, believed that he was three sheets in the wind, or, in plain words, drunk.