I mean, I shouldn't be altogether flabbergasted if you were to tell me that there had been tax fiddles here, or even something a bit close to the wind where the play and the girls are concerned.

Coming on the heels of revelations about financial and property dealings a bit close to the wind in other sections of the Gaullist Party, the authority of the Prime Minister could not but be weakened

Time you want a real good friend is when you're gone just a bit close to the wind, and want to be set right again.

Miriam's wordplay was steering fractionally too close to the wind for my liking.

This means, naturally, that a prosecutor anxious about tacking too close to the wind will disclose a favorable piece of evidence.

As far as an FA charge goes, Warnock sailed closest to the wind in his initial, expansively voiced televised criticism of Oliver -- the youngest Premier League ref at 26

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