Simplified from 風, which shows a sail 冂 with a sail tree 一 and an insect 虫
It blows an insect against the sail: The wind.

Left: person 亻, right: sail 几 (cf. wind 风) and cloth 巾
The person sees in the sail a piece of cloth, admires it and wants to wear it.

Left: ticket/bank note 票 (In the west 覀/西 you show 示 your ticket.) [West: 西 = Under the horizon 一 the sun 日 sinks 儿 at the sunset in the west], right: wind 风/風 (Into the sail 几 an insect 虫 is pushed by wind.)
(West wind is weak?) The west shows in the sail by: fluttering.

Left: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick), right: Wind 风/風 (The insect 虫 is blown into the sail 几 by the wind 风.)
The disease when you behave as fickle as the wind is: insanity.

Left: word 讠/言, right: wind 风/風 (sail 冂 with insect 虫)
Words against the wind means to: satirize.

Left: cloth 巾, right: sail 几 with something 丶 (cf. ordinary 凡 table with a scratch) [cf. wind 风, which is simplified from 風]
Cloth is commonly used for sails.

Left: 讠/言, right: flat table 几 (but here: sail, cf. wind 风)
Words like against a sail: Do you want to ridicule me?

Top: mountain 山, bottom: wind 风/風 (It blows an insect 㐅=虫against a sail 几: The wind)
(From the distance:) It looks like a mountain and moves with the wind: The mist.

Left: tree 木, right: wind 风/風 (insect 㐅=虫 in a sail 几)
This tree has (large) leaves that are blown by the wind: the maple.

Left: 猋 = 3x dog 犬 (The big 大 man holds in his arms: a dog 丶), right: wind 风/風 (insect 虫 blown into a sail几)
Like three dogs, such a wind: a whirlwind!