winds of change

English

Etymology

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

winds of change pl (plural only)

1. The inexorable process of inevitable societal and political change and progress over time.