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hot air

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hot air  (informal)
if something that someone says is just hot air, it is not sincere and will have no practical results Their promises turned out to be just so much hot air.
See also: air, hot
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Hot air isn't as good as gas, for if the air should get cold the balloon would come down in the desert, and we should be lost.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
The previous evening each furnace had been charged with 114,000 pounds weight of metal in bars disposed cross-ways to each other, so as to allow the hot air to circulate freely between them.
From The Earth To The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
Look at your brother, a-runnin' around to socialist meetin's, an' chewin' hot air, an' diggin' up extra strike dues to the union that means so much bread out of the mouths of his children, instead of makin' good with his bosses.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
 
 
 
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