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huff and puff

1. to breathe noisily, usually because you have been doing physical exercise. They're so unfit they start huffing and puffing if they have to run further than twenty yards.

2. to complain noisily about something but not be able to do anything about it. They huffed and puffed about the price, but eventually they paid up.

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Louis huff and puff on their hands between every pitch, wear ski masks under their parkas and crunch away on their frozen hot-dog-on-a-stick, what's so wrong with tossing around the idea of having baseball determine its annual champion at a neutral site -- one where the temperatures don't dip below the Fox TV ratings, the jets' flyby isn't necessary to defrost the foul poles and neither the pitchers nor the beer venders need pine tar relief to get a grip? A BIAS ABOUT NEUTRALITY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) Because so few shots were fired in anger in the "secret war," since Thailand was always a side-show and because the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) dealing with the Thai spent more time feuding with each other than they spent fighting the Japanese, there are stretches of comedy and a good deal of huff and puff in Professor Reynolds' otherwise absorbing book. Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During ... by Chandler, David / Pacific Affairs 17 to huff and puff and threaten every public school in America unless "Silent Night" is included in the Winter Concert, which, incidentally, they insist be renamed the "Christmas Concert. Clashing over Christmas: holiday humbuggery from the Religious Right by Church & State More results

Louis huff and puff on their hands between every pitch, wear ski masks under their parkas and crunch away on their frozen hot-dog-on-a-stick, what's so wrong with tossing around the idea of having baseball determine its annual champion at a neutral site -- one where the temperatures don't dip below the Fox TV ratings, the jets' flyby isn't necessary to defrost the foul poles and neither the pitchers nor the beer venders need pine tar relief to get a grip?

A BIAS ABOUT NEUTRALITY by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Because so few shots were fired in anger in the "secret war," since Thailand was always a side-show and because the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) dealing with the Thai spent more time feuding with each other than they spent fighting the Japanese, there are stretches of comedy and a good deal of huff and puff in Professor Reynolds' otherwise absorbing book.

Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During ... by Chandler, David / Pacific Affairs

17 to huff and puff and threaten every public school in America unless "Silent Night" is included in the Winter Concert, which, incidentally, they insist be renamed the "Christmas Concert.

Clashing over Christmas: holiday humbuggery from the Religious Right by Church & State

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