For us it was "if the wind changes, you'll be stuck like that"

I found this disproportionately funny because I used to live near a St John's that had bells that would ring multiple times per day

I read a french childrens book about this, so it's definitely more withspread.

Edit: could have been Swedish, it was a long time ago (the kid gets stuck as the wind changed and the bell rang, finally unstuck at the end of the book, does another face and gets re-stuck IIRC).

I know this one too from The Netherlands. But here it was just "when the bell tolls"