The nest is vulnerable to the sudden whims of the weather.
Funding is subject to political whim.
For years she had been subject to her husband's whims.
They seem to be able to change the rules of the game at whim.
Slaves could be bought and sold at the whim of their masters.
He bought the jacket on a whim.
The child's parents pandered to his every whim.
whims of fate - капризы судьбы
1. {wım} n
1. прихоть; причуда
~s of fate - капризы судьбы
2. непостоянство; изменчивость
2. {wım} v редк.
1. жаждать; жадно стремиться (к чему-л.)
2. диал. кружиться (о голове)
II {wım} n горн.(конный) привод
• A trip can be taken on it
• Bit of spontaneity
• Caprice
• Capricious desire
• Capricious notion
• Capricious thought
• Capricious urge
• Crazy idea
• Crazy notion
• Fanciful desire
• Fanciful idea
• Fanciful notion
• Fancy
• Fleeting desire
• Fleeting thought
• Freakish fancy
• Idle fancy
• Impulse
• Lark
• Odd notion
• Passing fancy
• Random notion
• Something to indulge
• Spontaneous thought
• Sudden desire
• Sudden fancy
• Sudden impulse
• Sudden notion
• Vagary
• A sudden desire