| 单词 | hot-air artist |
| 释义 | > as lemmashot-air artist b. attributive. In sense 2, as hot-air artist, hot-air merchant, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [adjective] flash1612 flash-flown1632 cant1747 swaddling1747 hot air1900 1900 C. L. Cullen Tales of Ex-tanks 350 Am I to understand that these meetings are going to be allowed to degenerate into exploitations of Longfellowish wooziness on the part of every hot-air pumper? 1906 T. Beyer Amer. Battleship 228 The official hot-air merchant of the camp. 1910 Sat. Evening Post 2 July 13/3 ‘Hot-air artists’ was a phrase uncoined; the farmer called them ‘jawsmiths’. 1920 ‘Sapper’ Bull-dog Drummond xii. 308 Author—so-called. Hot-air factory, but useful up to a point. 1953 A. T. Hobart Serpent-wreathed Staff v. 46 A hot-air artist like the colonel had it coming to him. 1993 N.Y. Times 13 Apr. a 18/5 Mr. Clinton said Republican complaints that his jobs bill was larded with wasteful, pork barrel spending was ‘hot air rhetoric.’ 2005 C. Newbrook Ducks in Row 23 A hot air merchant. He can talk the talk all right. But can he walk the walk? < as lemmas |
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