break wind

Idioms and Phrases

Expel intestinal gas, as in Beans always make him break wind . [Early 1500s]

Example Sentences

I was told I could have either a break-wind of boughs or a beehive hut, and on consideration I chose the latter.

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As a break-wind a crescent-shaped wall of benzine cases was built several yards to the south.

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By that time the Hut had been further protected by a crescent of cases, erected behind the first break-wind.

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Each day, now, Webb took an approximate magnetic dip and declination in the lee of the break-wind.

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As he said, once behind a break-wind one could safely defy it, but on the march one is much more humble.

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