Results for “吹”

to blow / to play a wind instrument / to blast / to puff / to boast / to brag / to end in failure / to fall through

to talk big / to brag / to shoot off one's mouth / (dialect) to chat idly

to brag

hair dryer

lit. to blow apart the hairs upon a fur to discover any defect (idiom) / fig. to be fastidious / nitpick

to boast / to talk big

to flatter / to laud sb's accomplishments / adulation

to let the wind blow on oneself / to be exposed to the wind / to air out (a room) / to blow air (e.g. to dry one's hair) / (fig.) to brief sb informally / to leak or hint at information ahead of formal release

to play (wind instruments)

to brush / to caress (of breeze) / to praise

to agitate for / to enthusiastically promote

to blow one's own trumpet (idiom)

(lit.) grass stirring in the wind (idiom) / (fig.) the slightest whiff of trouble

to fizzle out / to come to nothing

to blow-dry

failed / busted / to have not succeeded / to have died / to have parted company / to have chilled (of a relationship)

to blow cold / damping expectations by discouraging or realistic words

to whistle

to boast and flatter

to blow a whistle / to whistle

whistleblower

(lit.) blowing the trumpet / (fig.) to praise sb / (slang) to give a blowjob

(of a musical instrument) blow hole

to resort to bragging and flattering / abbr. for 吹牛拍馬|吹牛拍马[chuī niú pāi mǎ]

to talk big / to boast

to disperse

to sway (sb) through pillow talk

to blow air (into)

(coll.) to chat casually / to shoot the breeze (originally Cantonese)

to blow out (a flame)

to blow away dust

(idiom) a slight effort

to blow out (a flame)

lit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom) / fig. to die / to bite the dust / to be over and done with

to resort to bragging and flattering

lottery machine

player of the yu 竽[yú] (free reed wind instrument)

blowpipe

woodwind music

to play the xiao 簫|箫[xiāo], a vertical bamboo flute / (literary) to beg on the streets (abbr. for 吳市吹簫|吴市吹箫[wú shì chuī xiāo]) / (slang) to give a blowjob