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fume

verb as in get very upset about

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Turns out the pressure of trying to carry the national team and one of Italy’s biggest clubs through an impossibly crowded fixture crunch had left him running on fumes.

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Praising the emergency crews, Harrison said she had been told some kind of "fumes" potentially from a generator were to blame, while the shop was being set up before opening.

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"I was flummoxed, then fuming about it. They seemed to dismiss the fact that the plane turned around," she said.

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"I worry what I would do if the fumes suffocate my children."

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It means the seafront ice cream vans are now quiet, with no fumes puffing over the queue of children.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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