full of hot air
Talking a lot, especially without saying anything of value or meaning.
Did the salesman tell you anything new, or was he just full of hot air?
adj
Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
Complete; with nothing omitted.
Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word.
Complete; with nothing omitted.
Complete; with nothing omitted.
Total, entire.
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
adv
Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Prospero: I have done nothing but in care of thee, Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing Of whence I am, nor that I am more better Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, And thy no greater father.
[…] full in the centre of the sacred wood
noun
Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
The swan's-down feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, Are emblems, rather than express the full Of what he feels.
The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …
a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219, This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.