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blow smoke

verb

Etymology

By shortening of the full expression blow smoke up someone's ass, deemed less vulgar.

Definitions

  1. To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth

    To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.

    • Are these "statistics" they cite verifiable, or are they just blowing smoke, trying to scare people?
    • Why don't we liberate these United States? / We're the ones who need it the most / You think I'm blowing smoke? Boys, it ain't no joke / I make twenty trips a year from coast to coast
    • Joe [Klein] calls my [Benjamin] Netanyahu interview "more depressing than alarming, since you've got to figure that the new Israeli prime minister is mostly blowing smoke."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blow smoke. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA