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Literature | Whistle Down the Wind (To ). To defame a person. The cognate phrase "blown upon" is more familiar. The idea is to whistle down the wind that the reputation of the person may be blown upon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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It tells the story of some Yorkshire farm children, who discover an escaped convict hiding in a barn and believe him to be Jesus.
One of the screenwriters was Mary Hayley Bell, who wrote the novel on which the film was based; her daughter, Hayley Mills, played the leading role. Alan Bates played the man in the barn.
The theme music from the film, by Malcolm Arnold, became a classic.
In the 1990s, Whistle Down the Wind was adapted into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Whistle Down the Wind."
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Movie/TV Titles | Whistle Down the Wind (1961) | |
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Theater & Movies |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
whistle down the wind | 29 |
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| Language | Translations for "WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | szélnek ereszt (to disband, to whistle down the wind, to wind, to wing), szélnek beszél (to whistle down the wind). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | istlewhay ownday ethay indway | ||||
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Bibliography |
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