Get Wind Of Meaning

Example : 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, ch. 51:  [T]he secret was still a secret, except that you had got wind of it.1917, Sax Rohmer, The Hand of Fu-Manchu, ch. 7:  "It's no easy matter," said Inspector Weymouth, "to patrol the vicinity of John Ki's Joy-Shop without their getting wind of it."2001, Ginny Parker, "Dating Game," Time, 4 June:  He asks that I don't identify his name and profession, saying he doesn't want colleagues to get wind of his habits.