wind of change
Revolution in air
Wind of change is a force or feeling that signals significant transformation is coming.
The phrase suggests change arriving like weather—inevitable, widespread, and beyond individual control.
It often describes political or social shifts: There was a wind of change sweeping through the country after the election.
The plural winds of change is equally common.
- transformationThorough change in form
- shiftMovement or work period
- revolutionViolent governmental overthrow
- cold warHostility without open fighting
- iron curtainDivider of forged metal
breeze · gust · transition · upheaval · Berlin Wall · era · shifting sands · momentum · tide · current · sweeping · fresh · fresh start · new dawn · new beginning · turning point · reform · awakening
- Weather Idiomsunder the weather, when it rains it pours, come rain or shine, rain check, take a rain check
wind of changestagnation
Absence of flow or progress
status quo · inertia · stasis · paralysis · immobility
wind of changeconservatism
Preference for existing institutions
traditionalism · nostalgia · tradition · old guard · orthodoxy
wind of changeobstruction
Something blocking the way
blockage · roadblock · stone wall · counterrevolution · backlash
wind, winds, windy, windiness, winded, winding, change, changes, changed