full of hot air: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    GeneralneutralliteralMachine
    • Filled with heated air; literally containing hot air.

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    • The balloon was full of hot air, rising quickly into the sky.

      The balloon was literally filled with heated air, rising quickly into the sky.

    • We could feel the tent getting full of hot air as the sun warmed the inside.

      We could feel the tent filling with heated air as the sun warmed the inside.

    • The furnace was pumping full of hot air to heat the entire building efficiently.

      The furnace was pumping heated air to heat the entire building efficiently.

    • Her lungs were full of hot air after running up the steep hill.

      Her lungs contained warm air after running up the steep hill.

  • 2.

    USUKGeneralinformalcolloquialpejorativeMachine
    • Given to empty, exaggerated, or boastful talk; speaking at length without substance or genuine meaning.

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    • Don’t listen to him; he’s full of hot air and just boasting about things he hasn’t done.

      Don’t listen to him; he’s speaking boastfully without substance about things he hasn’t done.

    • The politician’s speech was full of hot air, promising much but offering little detail.

      The politician’s speech was full of empty, exaggerated talk, promising much but offering little detail.

    • She’s full of hot air when she talks about her accomplishments; it’s all exaggerated.

      She speaks boastfully and exaggeratedly about her accomplishments.

Examples:

  • EN: They fill you full of hot air, and all they want is your spondoolicks.
    ES: Te apasionan y solo quieren tu dinero.
  • EN: You'll have to be a magician, and if you do find her, you'll see she's full of hot air.
    ES: Tendrás que ser maga, y si la encuentras te llevarás una sorpresa.
  • EN: And I could never get anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody.
    ES: Y nunca pude conseguir nada, ...porque me llenaste de tantas fantasías que no podía soportar recibir órdenes de nadie.
  • EN: You're full of hot air, Pop.
    ES: Estás fuera de lugar, papá.
  • EN: It reminds me of a nut-case, full of hot air
    ES: Me acuerdo del caso de un loco, que no paraba de dar discursos.
    ES: Me acuerdo del caso de un loco, que no paraba de dar discursos.
  • EN: Lies, well, they're just balloons full of hot air. It's fun sticking pins in them just to hear them pop.
    ES: Y las mentiras... no son más que globos llenos de aire que nos gusta pinchar sólo para ver cómo estallan.
  • EN: You're full of hot air.
    ES: Son unos engreídos.
  • EN: Wellesley girl, parents got a lot of dough, she's on a ledge, 36th floor of the Hotel Ellison, a cop crawls out after her, tells her she's all full of hot air, they come back in, watch a hockey game on TV.
    ES: La chica de Wellesley, los padres tienen mucha pasta, está en una cornisa, en el piso 36 del Hotel Ellison, un policía sale arrastrándose tras ella y le dice que está llena de aire caliente, vuelven a entrar y ven un partido de hockey en la televisión.
  • EN: Look, a horse is human. That thing is full of hot air, just like you.
    ES: Un caballo es humano, no puro aire como tú.
  • EN: I could never get anywhere 'cause you blew me so full of hot air that I could never stand taking orders from anybody.
    ES: No he llegado a nada porque me llenaste la cabeza de aire caliente. ¡Nunca he podido recibir órdenes de nadie!
  • EN: It's not one of those movie colony bimbos... with the fancy dresses, filling you full of hot air.
    ES: No de esas chicas del ambiente con vestidos extravagantes... y adulaciones vacías, sino...
  • EN: Okay, guys, come and puncture this windbag, he's full of hot air!
    ES: Has fallado otra vez, inútil.
  • EN: is full of hot air."
    ES: está lleno de aire caliente.'
  • EN: Riker, you're nothing but a pretty mannequin in a fancy uniform. You're full of hot air.
    ES: Riker, no eres más que una marioneta presuntuosa vestida de primer oficial.
  • EN: A bladder full of hot air.
    ES: Un fanfarrón de primera.
  • EN: They fill you full of hot air, and all they want is your spondoolicks.
    ES: Te apasionan y solo quieren tu dinero.
  • EN: You'll have to be a magician, and if you do find her, you'll see she's full of hot air.
    ES: Tendrás que ser maga, y si la encuentras te llevarás una sorpresa.

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