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belch something up to cause the release of something that goes upward. The fire belched flames and smoke up. The volcano belched up clouds of poison gasses. See also: up belch out to burst, billow, or gush out. Smoke belched out of the chimney. See also: out How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Skillfully drawing upon vernacular literature, poetry, cartoons, and postcards, the Lecturer in History at the University of Birmingham shows that inhabitants of Manchester--working-class and middle-class alike--constructed an image of the coal smoke belching from local factories and domestic hearths as an "innocuous, even beneficial, form of dirt that constituted no great threat to life and health. Today, mention diesel, and the first thing we usually think of is the smelly, particulate-laden exhaust fumes belching from trucks. |
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