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It's full of hot air
Answer for the clue "It's full of hot air ", 4 letters:
flue
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Word definitions for flue in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"smoke channel in a chimney," 1580s, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Middle English flue , flewe "mouthpiece of a hunting horn" (early 15c.), which is perhaps from Old French fluie "stream;" or the modern word is perhaps from Old English flowan ...
Usage examples of flue.
She carried it up the ladder and pushed it down the flue until it rested in the bend of the pipe.
That was something he had forgotten to tell Sergeant Forrest: that he was in the habit of passing a brush up the hothouse flue every now and then.
He had already made up his mind who had meddled with the flue of the hothouse.
Hugh Strongitharm died, but she had been to Marsden earlier to put the bundle in the flue, and she went again later to get it out.
Hilary ill with the aspirin both the brothers would have died in the greenhouse, the bundle in the flue would have been taken out by Mrs Fawcett, who was somewhere in the garden waiting to do it, and everyone would have been foxed.
A tin of cooking oil had popped its metal stopper and spilled, and in the expediency of getting a fire going, he opened the flue, stuffed a few pieces of oil-soaked wood and an oil-soaked blanket in and touched a match to it.
He could attach himself to the inside of a flue by finger- and toe-holds at which even a fly might have blinked.
Cautiously he eased himself up the flue, clearing the soot as he went, partly with his brush and partly with the spiky stubble that grew out of his head.
He could see his shirt was on fire and in another second it would burn away and the smoke would go up the flue again.
She had gotten down on her hands and knees and reached up into the chimney, and indeed, the flue was stuck.
Terrific heat and flame would ascend safely up the broad stone flue of the chimney.
The rear wall of the flue bore a strange vertical mark all the way down its dusty surface.
He stabbed at the fire instead, shooting sparks up the flue so that embers popped and crackled.
Beyond it, up the flue, was a shelflike projection having a thick accumulation of ash and soot.
Its bright black flue pipe fits snugly into the smudged old fireplace of ugly fieldstones.