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Idiom(s) of the day: hot air
My category (Russian-to-English translation): Положительная или отрицательная оценка (Positive or negative evaluation)
Explanation(s):
Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Idioms, 2004 (CCDI):
If you describe what someone says or writes as hot air, you are criticizing it for being full of false claims and promises.
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
things that someone says that are intended to sound impressive but do not really mean anything or are not true
empty talk : unsubstantiated and often boastful statements
empty and usually boastful talk
Nonsense, exaggerated talk, wasted words characterized by emotion rather than intellectual content.
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
empty words, nonsense
empty talk that is intended to impress
claims, promises or statements that sound impressive but have no real meaning or truth
If something that someone says is hot air, it is not sincere and will have no practical results
statements that sound impressive but are really not sincere or sensible
Empty, exaggerated talk
If you say that someone's claims or promises are just hot air, you are criticizing them because they are made mainly to impress people and have no real value or meaning.
false talk, bragging, bull, hogwash
loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric"
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
empty, exaggerated, or pretentious talk or writing
Translation(s):
CCDI:
Болтовня, чепуха, вздор; пустые обещания, угрозы и т.п.; сотрясение воздуха
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
пустая или хвастливая болтовня; похвальба
болтовня, пустые слова; вздор, чепуха, ерунда
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
пустая болтовня, хвастовство, бахвальство, болтун, болтливый
пустые разговоры, сотрясание воздуха; ерунда, болтовня
Multitran (www.multitran.ru):
напыщенная речь; ложные обещания; очковтирательство, пустозвонство, пускание пыли в глаза; вилами на воде писано;
разводить демагогию( talk a lot of hot air);
неуместный, распространяющий неверную информацию, мелющий чепуху, преувеличенный, ложный (full of hot air);
болтун, очковтиратель, пустомеля (hot-air artist, hot-air salesman, hot-air merchant)
Multilex (www.multilex.ru):
Examples:
CCDI:
In a sense, all the rhetoric about heightened cooperation can be seen as so much hot air. There are still endless disputes.
Parliament is often full of hot air, mock insults and fake hostility.
Now that the value of art, along with everything else, has tumbled, we are better placed to ignore the hot air and evaluate works for what they really are.
His justification for the merger was just hot air...
Lingvo (www.lingvo.com):
That guy's full of hot air — Этот парень просто трепло
I've heard enough of your hot air — Ты мне уже надоел со своей ерундой
The theory was dismissed as a lot of hot air.
used to talk a lot of hot air about medicine — A.J.Cronin
threats both ways are just hot air, big talk and face saving — Kiplinger Washington Letter
That was just a lot of hot air what Joe said.
He is full of hot air and you can't rely on what he usually says.
Babylon (www.babylon.com):
They dismissed the theory as a load of hot air.
He talks a lot of hot air.
His promises turned out to be so much hot air.
Steve brags about winning the marathon, but he's full of hot air.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) v4.0:
Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary v4.7:
His report on the company's progress was just so much hot air.
British National Corpus (BNC), Mark Davies (http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/): hot air, total 224
There's been a lot of hot air generated over many years about grass cutting standards but it's not an idle thought when I say if anybody wants to see where the best grass cutting takes place then they should visit.
… they dismissed the ozone theory as a load of hot air.
He also proclaims that the Liberal Democrats will keep four Trident submarines. Is he going to power them on his party's hot air?
FRENCH men, proud of their prowess as lovers, may actually be all hot air, according to a study by the National Demographic Studies Institute.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), Mark Davies (http:// www.americancorpus.org/): hot air, total 657
Just a lot of hot air and not a lot of support. I
I predict the earth will cool some more (as it has for the past couple of years), and that the hot air from politicians eager to control more of our lives will increase considerably.
These two sets of fears came together in a perfect storm that was pushed forward by a surplus of hot air from talk-show hosts on radio and television.
Arguing that marriage is efficiently designed to have children raised by both biological parents, and that tampering with this design can lead to dire consequences, might appear as nothing more than theoretical hot air.
My companion project: An Idiom a Day (www.twitter.com/AVDemid): How do you clear the air of useless hot air generated by endless speculation without letting the breath of truth vanish into thin air?
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