/ · 1894 Brewer’s · I · Ill Wind
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
ʹTis an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Someone profits by every loss; someone is benefited by every misfortune.
“Except wind stands as never it stood,
It is an ill-wind turns none to good.”
Tusser: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, xiii.
· ·
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
· 
· 
· ·