Meaning of balloon juice | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Empty or exaggerated talk lacking in substance, boasting, chatter, nonsense.
   US, informal, uncountable
2. Any of various beverages, usually including gas dissolved in liquid.
   dated, informal, slang, uncountable

Examples

“The senate was inflated with a superior grade of wind, oratory, and balloon juice yesterday. This unusual condition was brought about by heated discussion of the Coulson-Gandy contest case.”

“All this underscores that the hyperactive posturing from Bryan and others on the dump is so much balloon juice. They’ll say anything to hoodwink voters into believing the dump isn’t inevitable, when all signs point otherwise.”

“Iacocca’s book is filled with managerial balloon juice. “The only way you can motivate people is to communicate with them.” […] He exhibits general ignorance of business fundamentals.”

“The shiftless, too lazy to keep up with the pace, and the incompetent oftentimes shrewd business men, but indifferent pharmacist, are compelled to purchase the ready-made articles to keep in touch with the ever increasing list of physicians who are too tired to do their own thinking, and who are willing that the patient should take his chances with the wonderful elixir of balloon juice recommended so highly by Prof. X. of the College of Timbuctoo, and of the composition of which they have not the slightest conception.”

“Imbibe Balloon juice! hoist up your courage mountain high! Drink!”

“balloon juice lowerer a total abstainer from liquor LIT: a soda water drinker”

“We drink chastely—balloon juice (seltzer). Now a British pub is all about booze. I don’t recall people eating much in pubs beyond bangers on sticks, stolid pork pie, Ryvita spears smeared with Marmite.”

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