"huff and puff" meaning in English

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      "form": "huffs and puffs",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "huffing and puffing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "huffed and puffed",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "huffed and puffed",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, \"Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow,\" guardian.co.uk",
          "text": "They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise."
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      "links": [
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          "breathe",
          "breathe"
        ],
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          "heavily",
          "heavily"
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          "rigorous",
          "rigorous"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌf"
    }
  ],
  "word": "huff and puff"
}

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    {
      "form": "huffs and puffs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "huffing and puffing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "huffed and puffed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "huffed and puffed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, \"Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow,\" guardian.co.uk",
          "text": "They were short of ideas, huffing and puffing their way towards a demoralising defeat."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To breathe heavily, especially after rigorous exercise."
      ],
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          "breathe"
        ],
        [
          "heavily",
          "heavily"
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          "rigorous",
          "rigorous"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-ʌf"
    }
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  "word": "huff and puff"
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