"whistle down the wind" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "form": "whistles down the wind",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "whistling down the wind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistled down the wind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistled down the wind",
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter VI, The Landed”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):",
          "text": "Can he do nothing for his Burns but make a Gauger of him; lionise him, bedinner him, for a foolish while: then whistle him down the wind, to desperation and bitter death?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set (someone) free, allowing them to go their own way and do what they choose."
      ],
      "id": "en-whistle_down_the_wind-en-verb-1zTSBM5o",
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        "(transitive) To set (someone) free, allowing them to go their own way and do what they choose."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, April Kihlstrom, An Outrageous Proposal:",
          "text": "It is very easy for you to whistle down the wind an eligible partner. There are far too many of us who can only wish we might have had the choice!",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To badmouth someone or something; to disparage."
      ],
      "id": "en-whistle_down_the_wind-en-verb-AVAosjBz",
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          "badmouth",
          "badmouth"
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        [
          "disparage",
          "disparage"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To badmouth someone or something; to disparage."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      "glosses": [
        "To talk to no purpose."
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      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "16 29 55",
          "word": "whistle in the dark"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 29 55",
          "word": "whistle in the wind"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 29 55",
          "word": "whistle past the graveyard"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "16 29 55",
          "word": "whistle Dixie"
        }
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      "form": "whistles down the wind",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "whistling down the wind",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "whistled down the wind",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "whistled down the wind",
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      "word": "whistle in the dark"
    },
    {
      "word": "whistle in the wind"
    },
    {
      "word": "whistle past the graveyard"
    },
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    }
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        }
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        "To set (someone) free, allowing them to go their own way and do what they choose."
      ],
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        "(transitive) To set (someone) free, allowing them to go their own way and do what they choose."
      ],
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    },
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          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To badmouth someone or something; to disparage."
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          "disparage",
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        "(transitive) To badmouth someone or something; to disparage."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To talk to no purpose."
      ]
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