hot air | Idiomator

Meaning: (literal)Air that has beenheated, especially so as tofunctionas thelifting agentof ahot-air balloon.The balloon was equipped with a burner to createhot airfor lift.; (idiomatic)Empty,confused, orexaggeratedtalklackingmeaningorsubstance;bluster.1913,William MacLeod Raine, chapter 8, inThe Vision Splendid:"You'll never get anywhere so long as youse trail with that reform bunch. It's allhot airand tomfool theory."1921,Alice Hegan Rice, chapter 28, inQuin:"You give me a lot ofhot airabout your conscience. Why don't you get a soap-box and preach on the street-corners?"2001June 24, Johanna McGeary, “How Bad Is China?”, inTime, retrieved 22 Sept 2013:Some of the steam in Washington rises from real issues, but a lot is thehot airof partisan politics.2014November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, inNew York Times‎[1]:Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-qualityhot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.2023March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, inRAIL, number978, page34:I'm afraid I must disagree with Sir Michael Holden, for whom I have enormous respect, when he wrote inRAIL977 that Transport Secretary Mark Harper's keynote speech for the George Bradshaw lecture in February was "a breath of fresh air". More likehot airto me, given Harper's emphasis on the private sector through both a kind of renewed franchising model and open access.

Examples:

EN: - You're all hot air.
ES: - Ud. solo charla
EN: Mary's been reading me a lot of hot air.
ES: - Mary me leyó esas sandeces.
EN: ─ It's not a lot of hot air.
ES: - No son sandeces.
EN: Nope, just a stenographer and probably eating three meals a day while I have to live on the hot air these producers put out.
ES: No, sólo taquígrafa, con tres comidas diarias mientras que yo dependo siempre de los productores.
EN: They fill you full of hot air, and all they want is your spondoolicks.
ES: Te apasionan y solo quieren tu dinero.
EN: Exploitation, advertising, ballyhoo, bull, hot air.
ES: Explotación, propaganda, promoción, mentiras, palabrería.
EN: It's that hot air coming out of the whole population.
ES: Es por esas patrañas que suelta toda la población.
EN: Only the hot air of Kubanda.
ES: Sólo el aire caliente de Kubanda.
EN: There has been no gas, but hot air!
ES: ¡No ha habido gas, pero si aire caliente!
EN: Uh, so, you try to live by blowing hot air into it.
ES: Trato de vivir inflándolos con aire caliente.
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: Ghost filled with hot air.
ES: Fantasma lleno de aire caliente.
EN: - He gave me a lot of hot air about what a great opportunity it was, but I said, "Wait a minute.
ES: - Me habló mucho sobre que era una oportunidad, pero dije: "Espere.
EN: Look at that. That's a lot of hot air.
ES: Mira, pura amenaza.
EN: Or that hot air last night, that flag-waving?
ES: ¿O eran sólo palabras lo de anoche? Tanto romanticismo...

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