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Verb: huff and puff
  1. To breathe heavily and noisily, especially from exertion
    "He huffed and puffed as he climbed the steep hill"
     
  2. [informal] To make empty threats or show ineffectual anger
    "He huffed and puffed about quitting, but everyone knew he wouldn't"

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