windbag

Related to windbag: wind down

old windbag

pejorative A person (not necessarily elderly) thought to speak at too great a length or to say little of value, often with an air of pretentious authority. Ah, quit prattling on about the government, you old windbag! You don't know the first thing about politics.
See also: old, windbag
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

windbag

and bag of wind
n. a talkative person; a braggart. Quiet, you windbag!
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • old windbag
  • gasbag
  • bag of wind
  • prattle on (about someone or something)
  • prattle away (about someone or something)
  • light in the loafers
  • bean queen
  • prattle
  • prattle about
  • prattle about (someone or something)
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Earlier this week the Manhattanbased billionaire announced Windbag Trump's opposition to an offshore windfarm in sight of his golf he had engaged top planninlaw FROM ANY ABERDEEN BRANCH ..UNTIL 6PM TONIGHT
Ex-Marseille boss Rolland Courbis fumed: "i've nicknamed Evra The Windbag - the moment a microphone appears, he hogs it."
He suggests that the circus of elderly men and women snoozing on red leather benches, and the farmyard impressions that pass for adult discussion Baron Kinnock of Bedwellty, that "Welsh windbag" in the House of Commons, is "the envy of the world".
The next time the Caledonian windbag - Andy Gray - starts drivelling away about the Premier League being the best in Europe, just respond 'Bolton Wanderers'.
The Government talks a good deal about sustainable this and sustainable that, particular when they are in full windbag mode over climate change.
The most annoying to me is that pompous, bragging windbag, Michael Winner, and, of course, June Whitfield telling all pensioners that 20p per day will save our relatives our funeral expenses.
Whereas an ageist world was happy to embrace anti-Establishment anger expressed by an articulate 26-year-old, the same ranting individual was regarded as a boring old windbag 35 years later.
But the man who became commonly known as the Welsh windbag and let his defences down to allow Margaret Thatcher to slip through Labour's defences for a third term in office, is quoted as saying: 'I have great respect for Mark Hughes but I think Earnie [Robert Earnshaw] should have started against Russia - and his performance against Scotland showed why.
It was the same method used against Neil Kinnock in tagging him as the Welsh Windbag.
And sitting through this aimless windbag of a movie does nothing to shake the idea.
- Windbag I AM often baffled about the traffic calming measures.
There is nothing wrong with adverts but couldn't they be shown at the commencement and conclusion of every fight instead of that windbag Rosenthal or the bore of the century Barry McGuigan?
IT seems that Peter Hain has now inherited the mantle of "Welsh Windbag" after his ranting over the Labour/Plaid coalition, even though he hails from South Africa.
However, let the Top Gear chaps - the winsome Richard Hammond, the windswept James May, the windbag Jeremy Clarkson bang on about them and she's all ears.
It is clear that Birmingham, as was reported in The Post recently, urgently needs to establish a permanent presence in London that will enable it to exert some influence upon those in the corridors of power - perhaps even upon the 'Windbag from Hull.'BRIAN C H SMITH Powys