the winds of change
the WINDZ uv CHAYNJ
ðə wɪndz əv tʃeɪndʒListen
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a metaphor for powerful forces of transformation that are beginning to affect a situation, institution, or era, often forces that cannot be resisted; the phrase was memorably used by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in his 1960 speech to the South African Parliament referring to the wave of African decolonisation and independence; it conveys both the inevitability and the impersonal scale of historical change, suggesting that shifts of this kind are as natural and unstoppable as the weather
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