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bellow like a (wounded) bull

cliché To yell or scream very loudly and aggressively. My father started bellowing like a wounded bull when I told him I had dropped out of college. For a woman of such small stature, she sure does bellow like a bull when she's angry! My goodness, why are those kids outside bellowing like a wounded bull? Don't they know how late it is?
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bellow out

1. To yell something. The security guard was bellowing out instructions to all the cars pulling into the parking lot. Mom, we're right here. No need to bellow out instructions! Sounds like another disgruntled customer is in the lobby and bellowing out a list of complaints.
2. To expel something. You can't see far into the distance with all of the smoke being bellowed out by the factories along the river. Boy, that tractor trailer is bellowing out some serious diesel fumes! Phew, it stinks! Fall is definitely on the way—there's a chill in the air, and most people's chimneys are bellowing out smoke.
See also: bellow, out
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bellow something out

to cry something out loudly with great force. Don't just say it. Bellow it out! Bellow out your name so we know who you are!
See also: bellow, out
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Bellows confesses that she has "probably violated the biographer's first rule and developed too much empathy" for her subjects, and in this section her empathy for Pinckney manifests in sometimes harmful ways (9).
Along with our existing companies, BellowsTech and Servometer, the acquisition of Ameriflex increases MW's range of bellows products and technologies and will provide the most complete offering in the industry.'
It has now been hung alongside the on-loan Nude Girl, Miss Leslie Hall (1909) for the exhibition Bellows and the Body: The Real, the Ideal and the Nude, which opens this Friday.
In the first chapter Judie Newman brilliantly examines the shift of affections from Bellow's early embrace of Trotskyism to his later, longer-lasting commitment to neoconservatism.
Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Fulton makes complex precision bellows and thin-walled metal components utilised in mission critical gas and fluid control systems.
The bellow forms a flexible static seal that is leak-free, as long as the integrity of the bellows remains intact.
The bellows is extruded by Ireland's Radius Systems Ltd.
The painting represents a return to major purchases for the Barber Institute and director Nicola Kalinsky says it now becomes only the second UK public collection to own a work by Bellows.
The basic design of the bellows coupling from composite material
The conveyor consists of numerous bellows modules that deform the surface creating a wave motion that transports the objects in a targeted manner.
Jonsson, Static characteristics of flexible bellows [M.S.
The exhibition titled 'Buzzing Bellows', has got Abid's unique style that compositions remain aesthetically appealing, glistening, intense, energetic and lively, that touches viewers deep inside and creates an unexplained attachment.
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