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huff and puff

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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.
See also: huff


huff and puff
1. to breathe in a noisy manner. He was on the top of the hill long before I came up huffing and puffing behind him.
2. to complain. The owners will huff and puff about their financial problems and then not do anything to solve them.
See also: huff

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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?
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.
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.
 
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