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wind something (up) (into something)

to coil something up into a ball or similar shape. Tony wound all the string up into a ball. Wind up the string into a ball. Please wind this into a ball.

See:

• a capful of wind
• a straw in the wind
• as the wind blows
• bag of wind
• be in the wind
• be pissing in(to) the wind
• be scattered to the four winds
• be spitting in the wind
• be three sheets to the wind
• beat the air
• before the wind
• bend in the wind
• bend with the wind
• between wind and water
• both sheets in the wind
• break wind
• candle in the wind
• cast stones against the wind
• close to the wind
• end up
• end up doing
• eye of the wind
• four sheets in the wind
• four sheets to the wind
• get a second wind
• get a/ second wind
• get the wind up
• get wind of
• go like the wind
• gone with the wind
• have the wind up
• Hoist your sail when the wind is fair
• how the wind blows
• how the wind lies
• ill wind that blows no one any good, it's an
• in the eye of the wind
• in the wind
• It's an ill wind
• it's an ill wind that blows no good
• it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
• It's an ill wind that blows nobody good
• knock the wind out of sails
• know which way the wind blows
• leave to twist in the wind
• like greased lightning
• like the wind
• near the wind
• off the wind
• one's second wind
• out of breath
• piss in the wind
• put the wind up (someone)
• reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall
• run like the wind
• sail against the wind
• sail before the wind
• sail close to the wind
• second wind
• see how the wind blows
• see how the wind is blowing
• see which way the wind blows
• see which way the wind is blowing
• something in the wind
• sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
• spit in(to) the wind
• straw in the wind
• sure as the wind blows
• swift as an arrow
• take the wind out of one's sails
• take the wind out of sails
• take the wind out of someone’s sails
• the way the wind blows
• the way the wind is blowing
• three sheets in the wind
• three sheets to the wind
• throw caution to the wind
• throw caution to the winds
• throw discretion to the wind(s)
• throw straws against the wind
• to the four winds
• twist around little finger
• twist around one's finger
• twist in the wind
• twist slowly in the wind
• two sheets to the wind
• under the wind
• up the wind
• way the wind blows, which
• which way the wind blows
• which way the wind is blowing
• which way the wind lies
• whistle (one) down the wind
• wind
• wind (someone) around (one's) (little) finger
• wind (someone) round (one's) (little) finger
• wind around
• wind at (one's) back
• wind back
• wind back the clock
• wind down
• wind in
• wind into
• wind off
• wind onto
• wind through
• wind up
• wind up in
• wind up with
• windbag