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close to the wind

Near a limit of feasibility or compliance with law or morality.
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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'close to the wind':

close to the windUsed other than as an idiom: see close to, the, wind.
close to the windIn a direction almost opposite to that from which the wind is blowing
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