hot air

informal

Definition

› If something that someone says is hot air, it is not sincere and will have no practical results: His promises turned out to be so much hot air.Nonsense

(Definition of hot air from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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