huff and puff 的定义
- Make noisy, empty threats; bluster. For example, You can huff and puff about storm warnings all you like, but we'll believe it when we see it. This expression uses two words of 16th-century origin, huff, meaning “to emit puffs of breath in anger,” and puff, meaning “to blow in short gusts,” and figuratively, “to inflate” or “make conceited.” They were combined in the familiar nursery tale, “The Three Little Pigs,” where the wicked wolf warns, “I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down”; rhyme has helped these idioms survive.
huff and puff 近义词
等同于 puff
更多huff and puff例句
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- Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
- They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.
- It was a white silk, with an immense train, of course, and without overskirt—simply caught up in a great puff behind.