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huff and puff
Definition
› to breathe loudly, usually after physical exercise: We were huffing and puffing by the time we'd climbed to the top of the hill.Breathing and stopping breathing › informal disapproving to complain loudly and express disapproval: They huffed and puffed about the price but eventually they paid up.Complaining
(Definition of huff and puff from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- beef noun (COMPLAINT)
- beef verb
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- bewail verb
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- grievance noun
- grizzle verb
- grouse verb
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- make representations/a representation to sb/sth idiom
- nagging adjective
- nagging noun
- pardon me for breathing/existing/living! idiom
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