intransitive. To use language as light or unsubstantial as vapour; to talk fantastically, grandiloquently, or boastingly; to brag or bluster.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > talk insincerely [verb (intransitive)] (7) vapour1629 intransitive. To use language as light or unsubstantial as vapour; to talk fantastically, grandiloquently, or boastingly; to brag or bluster. cant1648 To say or exclaim in the pet phraseology of the day, to use the phrases currently affected at the time. Also, to cant it: to phrase it in the cant… quack1650 intransitive. To act as a quack or charlatan; spec. (a) to pretend to have medical skill or knowledge, to dabble ignorantly in medicine; (b) to… gas1849 Cf. gas, n.1 6. intransitive. Originally U.S. To talk at length whilst saying little of value; to talk idly or boastfully; to chat, to gossip. Also… bull1850 intransitive. To talk emptily or boastfully (cf. bull, n.4 3). to shoot the bull1922 figurative and in figurative context. Chiefly U.S. slang. to shoot the works: to effect something to the fullest extent; spec. to discharge the… blah1924 |
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