before the wind

Idioms  

1. Driven ahead, hurried, as in The bikers are moving before the wind, so it's hard to tell who will come in first. The literal meaning of this term is nautical, referring to a ship sailing in the same direction as the wind and being propelled forward. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1800s.

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before the wind

Open qualifying, posted his 68 in the morning before the wind and the temperatures picked up.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

On a good day, even a distance runner’s legs wobble and fail long before the wind does.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2023

The surfers would be back at it early the next morning before the wind kicked up.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

“It’s like I used to be on solid ground,” he says before the wind blows him away.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2021

It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent thundering through space.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë