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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited the US in November – weeks before the war with Pakistan and that visit was a cold wind blowing.
What is meaning of 'cold wind blowing visit'?
Learn English – meaning of ‘cold wind blowing visit’
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It doesn't say "cold wind blowing visit" - "a cold wind blowing" is a noun phrase, the complement of "was".
With an adjectival modifier, we can move it to complement position, so
implies that we can say
But, while a noun phrase can sometimes be used to modify a noun phrase, we can't normally use the same noun phrase as complement; or if we can, it won't have the same meaning. So:
but not
And conversely
but not normally
"A cold wind blowing" is a metaphor for something unwelcome, or something which suggests that something unwelcome will follow.