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lung
(redirected from lungful)

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have a [fine/good etc.] pair of lungs (humorous)
if you say that a baby has a good pair of lungs, you mean that they can cry very loudly. Well she's got a fine pair of lungs, I'll say that for her!
See also: fine, good, pair

at the top of your lungs
as loudly as you can. She sang the national anthem at the top of her lungs.
See also: top


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Then lawmakers would have to figure out how to get rid of the particulate pollution that commuters breathe in by the lungful, which researchers now say is a serious health threat.
Take a deep, sweet lungful of jasmine fragrance--and admire its courage.
He who loved the lilies of the field probably would have breathed a deep, appreciative lungful of hyacinth, too.
 
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