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Hard-line, never-die wind-bag Wing nuts! orangeplasticfish Republicans only care about things that directly affect or offend them, and then mostly in the short term.

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Broken reed, false friend; vain, impotent wind-bag; purblind, blustering dotard!

He was a wind-bag, but a wind-bag who delighted his audience in the same way as a monkey on an organ is a source of appreciation not so much for its innate humour as for the unstudied expression of its personality.

Punch cleverly hit off the situation by representing Bismarck �olus, the wind-god, struggling desperately with an unmanageable wind-bag, which is swelling threateningly in the direction of the East and assuming the form of a dangerous war-cloud.

It was always a great cause of wonderment to me that this big wind-bag of a man was tolerated, let alone made a comrade of, by Hoggett, who was neither a coward nor a wind-bag, except when he was mouthing futile threats against me and Billy.

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

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