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A man whose confidence and competence took separate flights, and only one landed.
means Someone who brags loudly and boastfully, especially about things they can't actually back up.
from A 19th-century American sailor's term, originally naval slang for a blustering storm or a blustering person — the image is of someone all wind, like gale-force bluster with nothing solid behind it. 'Blow' for wind and bragging talk, 'hard' for the intensity — it came ashore from sea-faring speech into everyday insult, and stuck.
- origin
- 1800s sailor slang for boastful windy types
- tell
- volume rises exactly when facts run out
- habitat
- thrives at open bars and office meetings
- cure
- one direct question about specifics