get wind of

每日一詞---get wind of

根據網路英英字典權威「The Free Dictionary」的解釋，get wind of的意思是：to hear a piece of information that someone else was trying to keep secret. 也就是聽到或得知別人想保密的消息；有時也指本來不該知道的事。比如我不想讓老闆知道我要離職，就可以說：I don't want my boss to get wind of the fact that I'm leaving.

再來一句是說，藥品違法交易的風聲已經走漏，被警察給知道了：The police got wind of the illegal drug deal. 或者呢也可以用來說，大家都聽聞某人的醜事了：His scandal got wind.