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bag of wind

/wind-bag/US // ˈwɪndˌbæg //UK // (ˈwɪndˌbæɡ) //

风袋,风之袋,风包,风囊

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Informal.Also called bag of wind [wind] /wɪnd/ . an empty, voluble, pretentious talker.
    • : the bag of a bagpipe.

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Examples

  • He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”

  • He can still come off like a windbag with a know-it-all air.

  • Since when has the son of a chief learnt to talk with the loud tongue and windbag swagger of the Amabuna?

  • And Mr. Spurgeon was no windbag—vox et præterea nihil; no darling pet of old women whose Christianity was flabby as an oyster.

  • Showed what Sexton can do when so deeply moved as to forget himself, and resist besetting temptation to play the fatal windbag.

  • Carlyle thought Darwin a poor creature, and Comte regarded Hegel himself as an empty windbag.

  • A regular braggart and empty windbag, he had taken but one good care, and that was of his own skin.