puff Идиома

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have a puff

(See have a drag)

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puff lye

to smoke a medicinal herb, i.e. marijuana;"Life's a bitch and then you die, that's why we puff lye" -- NAS (Life's a bitch and then you die [1994])

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puffer

a crack addict; crackhead

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puff out

1．cause to swell使胀起
The toothache puffed out one side of his face．牙疼使得他的半边脸肿了起来。
The boy confidently puffed out his chest．男孩信心十足地挺起胸膛。
She puffed out the story quite a lot．她把这件事大肆渲染。
2．blow out吹灭
A sudden gust of wind from the open window puffed the candle out．从窗口突然吹进来一阵风，把蜡烛吹灭了。
She puffed out the candle as soon as the child went to sleep．孩子一睡着，她就吹熄了蜡烛。
3．cause to become short of breath 使气喘
Climbing up the long staircase to his office quite puffed me out．爬这么高的楼梯到他办公室，简直使我喘不过气来。
We ran so hard that we were all puffed out when we got there．我们拼命跑，跑到那儿一个个气喘吁吁的。

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puffed up

full of pride自满
She wouldn't have become so puffed up if you hadn't given her too much praise．如果当初你没有过多地赞扬她，她决不会象现在这样骄傲。

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puffed up|puff up|puffed

adj. Elated; proud; conceited. Just because Bob inherited some money from his father is no reason for him to act so puffed up.

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huff and puff

huff and puff
Make noisy, empty threats; bluster. For example, You can huff and puff about storm warnings all you like, but we'll believe it when we see it. This expression uses two words of 16th-century origin, huff, meaning “to emit puffs of breath in anger,” and puff, meaning “to blow in short gusts,” and figuratively, “to inflate” or “make conceited.” They were combined in the familiar nursery tale, “The Three Little Pigs,” where the wicked wolf warns, “I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down”; rhyme has helped these idioms survive.

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puff piece

puff piece
An approving or flattering article, as in That was really a puff piece about the conductor, written by her cousin. The use of puff for “exaggerated praise” dates from about 1600; piece was added in the mid-1900s.