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bag of wind
noun
A windbag.
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Jean-Paul Sartre, on the other hand, "is a bag of wind, and I am going to give him a good boot".
This is part of what Orwell was getting at when, in a private letter, he described Jean-Paul Sartre as "a bag of wind".
It is also the first classical piece expressly written for folk icon Kathryn Tickell, the woman single-handedly responsible for making a sensual art out of squeezing a bag of wind.
This season, by way of new work, the company brought forth an evening-long bag of wind called "HereAfter," with a cast of forty-five, a chorus of a hundred and twenty, and what looked like about a million dollars' worth of sets (including a space module) and costumes by Santo Loquasto.
Even so, it is probably best not to get too po-faced, especially in the context of beach volleyball, which is after all a contest featuring four women in bikinis (the maximum size of which is stipulated in the rules) slapping a bag of wind over a net on a court made from sand shipped in from the nearest beach.
Some of them actually date back to the 1800s, including: "A bag of wind" (they reallllly don't like flatulence); "scarcely entitled to be called gentlemen"; "coming into the world by accident"; talking twaddle; and "blatherskite".
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But then, somewhere betwixt the Scylla of Columbus And Wheeling's wild Charybdis, The clouds did darken like Poseidon's brow, And Aeolus' bag of winds did burst apart.
From the bag of winds gifted to Aeolus to the Biblical drought visited on Jerusalem, meteorological phenomena first appear in the narrative record as tools used by deities to battle one another and to help or hinder humans.
He is portrayed as a terrifying dark demon, resembling a red headed black humanoid wearing a leopard skin, carrying a large bag of winds on his shoulders.
A canvas bag of basketballs wound up at the wrong site, delaying a shoot-around.
While walking the course during her rounds, her mother carries a backpack that contains, among other things, a bag of plastic wind-up ladybug toys that she gives to young girls in Thompson's galleries.
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