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you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows proverb: one does not require an expert to tell one what one already knows.

Proverb

you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

  1. (figuratively) One does not require an expert to tell one what one already knows.

Origin of you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

From a line in a Bob Dylan song, Subterranean Homesick Blues (1965).

Words formed from you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

Questions about you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows

What does you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows mean?
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows means one does not require an expert to tell one what one already knows.
What part of speech is you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows?
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows is a proverb.

Words near you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows in the dictionary

  1. you don't know what you've got till it's gone
  2. you don't know where it's been
  3. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you poke the fire
  4. you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire
  5. you don't miss the water till the well runs dry
  6. you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
  7. you don't say
  8. you don't want to know
  9. you gals
  10. you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
  11. you get that

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