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huff and puff



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Idioms and Phrases

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 鈥渢o emit puffs of breath in anger,鈥 and puff , meaning 鈥渢o blow in short gusts,鈥 and figuratively, 鈥渢o inflate鈥 or 鈥渕ake conceited.鈥 They were combined in the familiar nursery tale, 鈥淭he Three Little Pigs,鈥 where the wicked wolf warns, 鈥淚'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down鈥; rhyme has helped these idioms survive.
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I love being able to stand on the bike and huff and puff up or down the hill.

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In the ad, Berlant suggests that the woman on the mountain needn't huff and puff on that ragged path upwards 鈥 an act meant to symbolize eating a plant-based diet to save the planet.

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鈥淭he Canadian government placed a very big bet that this was all a bluff from the tech companies and they could not live without Canadian news and they would huff and puff but would ultimately cave,鈥 said Michael Geist, the Canada research chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa.

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"The message is quite simple: if you do a lot of "huff and puff" exercise, then your risk of dying early or developing diseases in the future is reduced. If you avoid exercise your health may suffer."

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And for all the huff and puff, a panicked and pedestrian Wales were desperately short of quality and creativity in the final third, despite the array of attacking options.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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