The phrase "passing wind" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a polite way to refer to the act of farting or expelling gas from the digestive system. Example: My grandfather always jokes about passing wind at the dinner table. In this example, "passing wind" is used to describe the act of farting without using vulgar language. It can also be used in medical or scientific contexts, such as discussing digestive issues or the effects of certain foods on passing wind.
Then I was told to ask the patient if he'd had any trouble passing wind.
Some scholars claim, however, that people in Chaucer's time were less self-conscious than we are about passing wind in front of others.
It was designed with some serious attention to the dynamics of the passing wind, never a simple subject, but on close examination, the word that comes to mind is not so much "high-tech" as "clever".
While the passing wind may be only 10 or 15 miles an hour, the Makani device is circling at speeds of about 100 miles an hour as its propellers are turned by the wind.
"Mr. Interlocutor, what is the difference between an elephant passing wind and a place where you might go for a drink?" "I don't think you understand," Mother said, in a strained voice.
In addition to its plot contrivance (it's the gas that keeps these lost men on their voyage) the taboo of passing wind (as well as masturbation) becomes the central metaphor for the need to be true to oneself.
We ride through bamboo copses and lush meadows, passing wind-sculpted bedrock, craggy clifftops, medieval military roads and more.
… if human hearts be dead, Speak, passing winds; ye torrents, with your strong And constant voice, protest against the wrong.
In a mountain valley that serves as a thoroughfare for passing winds, Tocco was chosen as the site for an early European Union demonstration project in wind power in 1989.
In fact, far from supporting a popular referendum for filling vacant Supreme Court seats, the Constitution's drafters aimed to insulate judicial selection from the passing winds of popular political opinion.
Going to the toilet to pass wind?
