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The phrase 'catch wind of' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe when someone hears news or rumors about something, or an idea or plan that someone else has. For example, "She caught wind of the party and decided to join in the fun."
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catch wind of
verb
Alternative form of get wind of
Exact(28)
At no point in the film, however, do we catch wind of any countervailing views.
Even a quite vigilant administration would have needed some luck to catch wind of Al Qaeda's plans.
When police authorities catch wind of a pending heist, they do not shout it from the rooftops.
A day earlier, in Longyearbyen's cosy Karls-Berger Pub, two locals catch wind of my plan to cross the mountains in search of this icy ghost.
They were afraid of two things — that PBS would catch wind of it, and that Lessin and Deal would go to the press and say that PBS didn't want them talking about David Koch".
I feel the need to digress here and mention, for those of you who didn't catch wind of it, the way the conservative pundit George Will summarized this particular dynamic in a television appearance last weekend.
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The bishop, naturally, caught wind of it.
Before long, the Princetonian caught wind of the controversy.
Has the government caught wind of a smallpox plot?
Mr. Miller's neighbors caught wind of his plans through public notices.
But students said they caught wind of plans to interrupt Mr. Oren's speech.
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