winds of change
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1960 in a speech advocating decolonization made in Cape Town, South Africa, which referred to the "wind of change […] blowing through this continent", later shifting to the plural "winds of change" in popular usage.
Noun
[edit]winds of change pl (plural only)
- The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.