straw in the wind

It is a straw in the wind of social change.

But even before 1947 there were straws in the wind.

"It's another straw in the wind to support the view that the recession is over."

So some of the figures could be no more than straws in the wind, if that.

So far, the straws in the wind indicate that he will not.

The displacement of the water tossed him about like a straw in the wind.

For the last few days she had been like a straw in the wind, swept along without the benefit of choice.

He has a way with money, but he is like a straw in the wind.

We all know that good intentions not followed up with action are just straws in the wind.

The king was a straw in the wind, nothing more than a human banner to be waved when necessary.

Maybe some spastic weed that goes over like straw in the wind.

There were 'one or two straws in the wind' to watch for.

As if Fax cared a straw in the wind!

Scattering people like straws in the wind, he leaped after the small thief.

But there are straws in the wind, and some are disturbing.

Since the reversion, there have been some intriguing straws in the wind here.

I was waiting, you see looking for straws in the wind, I suppose.

In any case, it is a straw in the wind that does not point to lower short-term interest rates.

What would it take to make investors pay closer heed to the various straws in the wind?

I'll have to see if there are any more straws in the wind," Regis said.

The 200 Madison Avenue sale is only a straw in the wind.

The appearance of the king from East was a useful straw in the wind, so he drew trumps with a happy result.

And he had a sense for what she thought of as harbingers, those little straws in the wind that said there was a storm coming.

"Well, then," I said, "how about some of these straws in the wind?

If these straws in the wind portend some growth, there may be trouble ahead for bonds.