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The ants are my friends, they’re blowing in the wind

What's the meaning of the phrase 'The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind'?

Misheard lyric.

What's the origin of the phrase 'The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind'?

A misheard version of Bob Dylan’s ‘the answer my friend is blowing in the wind’. It is difficult to know whether this was genuinely misheard or whether it is just a nice line that someone made up and presented as misheard.

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Writer and researcher on the origins of phrases and the creator of the Phrase Finder website. Over the past 26 years more than 700 million of his pages have been downloaded by readers. He is one of the most popular and trusted sources of information on phrases and idioms.
The ants are my friends, they’re blowing in the wind

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