"willow in the wind" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1984 March 22, “Editorial: Smoking ban still up in the air”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 2011-06-21, page 4:",
          "text": "[T]he CAB has rightfully seen Congress as a willow in the wind, bending to the wishes of whatever special interest groups and businesses speak loudest.",
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          "ref": "1989, Gerry Spence, With Justice for None, →ISBN, page 5:",
          "text": "Justice is not a willow in the wind; justice stands immutable against unjust forces.",
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          "ref": "1992 June 25, “Local: Florida Senate”, in Miami Herald, retrieved 2011-06-21, page 5B:",
          "text": "If he has to vote against taxes, he will—and his vote won't change from day to day: “I'm not gonna be a willow in the wind.”",
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          "ref": "2008, Ronald Arthur Howard, Clinton D. Korver, Ethics for the Real World, →ISBN, page 40:",
          "text": "Ethics begin to feel situational, a balancing of concerns. When this happens, we no longer have any firm ethic to stand on. We become an ethical willow in the wind.",
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        "One whose views are easily and regularly changed by the persuasion or influence of others."
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        "(idiomatic) One whose views are easily and regularly changed by the persuasion or influence of others."
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          "ref": "1984 March 22, “Editorial: Smoking ban still up in the air”, in Reading Eagle, USA, retrieved 2011-06-21, page 4:",
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          "ref": "1992 June 25, “Local: Florida Senate”, in Miami Herald, retrieved 2011-06-21, page 5B:",
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        "(idiomatic) One whose views are easily and regularly changed by the persuasion or influence of others."
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