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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. 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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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 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. 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. |
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