Meaning of blow smoke | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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Examples

“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."”

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