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fart in the wind en · NOUN
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Synonym of fart in a windstorm (“something utterly insignificant, ineffective, or fleeting”).
[Adam] Lambert's vocals have never been in question, but compared to [Freddy] Mercury's booming, full-bodied range that could fill stadiums on its own, the 32-year-old's squeaky warbling on songs such as "Somebody To Love" and "Another One Bites The Dust" sounded like farts in the wind.
2014 July 18, Hardeep Phull, “Lambert lives out childhood dream with Queen tour”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2021:The Twitter brouhaha passed so quickly — debate in the realm of Elon Musk has gone from something already ephemeral to barely a fart in the wind — that there wasn't even an opportunity for Burns' latest PBS offering to capitalize on the buzz.
2023 October 14, Daniel Fienberg, “'The American Buffalo' Review: Even Not-Peak Ken Burns Is Still Worth a Watch”, in The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles, C.A.: Eldridge Industries, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2024:No, I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pad.
1937, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, page 97:Boroughs like Manhattan and Brooklyn are so big, I could pop someone and disappear like a fart in the wind.
2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, page 20:
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fart in a windstorm