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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Ill Wind 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Someone profits by every loss; someone is benefited by every misfortune. "Except wind stands as never it stood, It is au ill-wind turns none to good." Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, xiii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction; (painfulness); bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune. |
Hindrance | Difficulty; insuperable; obstacle; estoppel; ill wind; head wind; (opposition); trammel, tether; (means of restraint); hold back, counterpoise. |
Inexpedience | Evil doer; bane; plague spot; (insalubrity); evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid, thorn in the side. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ILL WIND |
| English words defined with "ILL WIND": ill. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | It's an Ill Wind (1939) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Heywood | An ill wind that bloweth no man to good. |
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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 |
ill wind | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "ILL WIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Hungarian | minden rosszban van valami jó is (it's all an ill wind that blows nobody good). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | illay indway | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-i-i-l-l-n-w" | |
-3 letters: dill, nidi, nill, wild, will, wind. | |
-4 letters: din, ill, lid, lin, nil, win. | |
-5 letters: id, in, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-l-n-w" | |
+1 letter: wildling, windmill. | |
+2 letters: wildlings, windchill, windmills. | |
+3 letters: indwelling, unwieldily, windchills, windmilled, windowsill. | |
+4 letters: disallowing, wildfowling, windmilling, windowsills. | |
+5 letters: disbowelling, wildfowlings. | |
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| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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