亚洲网紅露点

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hot air

noun

Informal.
  1. empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing:

    His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.



hot air

noun

  1. informal.
    empty and usually boastful talk
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hot air1

1835鈥45 for literal sense
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Idioms and Phrases

Empty, exaggerated talk, as in That last speech of his was pure hot air . It is also put as full of hot air , as in Pay no attention to Howard鈥攈e's full of hot air . This metaphoric term transfers heated air to vaporous talk. [Late 1800s]
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鈥淵ou鈥檙e seeing a glowing tunnel of hot air that might be 10 miles in diameter produced by this very tiny little pebble that鈥檚 passing through the atmosphere and burns up,鈥 Krupp said.

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Half the time, Black鈥檚 dialogue is just announcing what we鈥檙e looking at, from diamond swords to flying hot air balloons that look like goth squids.

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The brief sizzle is fueled by a peaking high-pressure ridge, along with an offshore flow that is pulling hot air from the mountains to the coastal areas, Munroe said.

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How can a simple mechanism like a hot air balloon bring so much joy and wonder?

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In that same year, Lukashenko鈥檚 air force, acting more like enforcers of a bygone era than a modern military, literally shot down a hot air balloon carrying two Americans.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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