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break wind
Idioms and Phrases
Expel intestinal gas, as in Beans always make him break wind . [Early 1500s]Example Sentences
Video footage showing the devastation across Iowa depicted flattened buildings, overturned cars and broken wind turbines.
The average person passes gas 12 to 25 times a day, but when you’re on a plane, you might feel like you’re constantly breaking wind.
Mr. Urban was “the sort of man who ostentatiously and deliberately breaks wind in living rooms and watches the reaction of other guests,” Daniel Passent, a Polish political columnist, wrote in 1985.
Bush was that it allowed him the privacy and freedom to break wind.
The solution: Hiring a man who can break wind on command to launch darts at Steve-O from a flatulence-powered dart gun.
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