Meaning: active air defense

n.
air defense by the use aircraft or missiles or artillery or electronic countermeasures

(like) a breath of fresh air Idiom, Proverb

a breath of fresh air

a nice change, a new presence Having Lan around the house is a breath of fresh air - she's so nice.

a fair shake

a fair deal, a just settlement The insurance company gave us a fair shake - paid all our damages.

a fresh pair of eyes

a different reader, one who has not seen the writing A fresh pair of eyes may find many errors in this report.

a little hair off the dog

(See hair off the dog)

air one

make public something embarrassing that should be kept secret The dinner party became uncomfortable when the host began to air his colleagues' dirty laundry in public.tell about one

air rage

angry or violent passengers on an airplane The man struck one of the attendants. It was air rage.

air was blue

(See the air was blue)

airhead

(See an airhead)

all's fair in love and war

there are no rules to guide you in love or war, that's life When your girlfriend leaves you for your best friend, remember, All's fair in love and war.

an airhead

a person who talks without thinking, a fool Sally is such an airhead. She said that chicklets are baby chickens.

(like) a animation of beginning air

Refreshingly new, different, and pleasing. After dating a alternation of arid men, Tom's adventuresome attributes was like a animation of beginning air to Sarah. The admirable new acrylic blush is a animation of beginning air for the house.Learn more: air, breath, fresh, of

breath of beginning air

1. Lit. an accession of air that is not dried or smelly, abnormally from outdoors. You attending ill, John. What you charge is a animation of beginning air.
2. Fig. a allocation of air that is not "contaminated" with abhorrent bodies or situations. (This is a acerb adaptation of {2}.) You bodies are disgusting. I accept to get out of actuality and get a animation of beginning air. I accept I'll go get a animation of beginning air. The bookish atmosphere in actuality is stifling.
3. Fig. a new, fresh, and artistic access (to something). (Usually with like.) Sally, with all her admirable ideas, is a animation of beginning air. The adornment in this allowance is like a animation of beginning air.Learn more: air, breath, fresh, of

breath of beginning air

New and refreshing, as in His accession was like a animation of beginning air. This appellation transfers the abstraction of beginning air to a new access or acceptable arrival, and has abundantly replaced both the beforehand breath of heaven and breath of spring, although the closing is still heard occasionally. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: air, breath, fresh, of

a animation of beginning air

COMMON If you call addition or article as a animation of beginning air, you beggarly that they are abundantly altered from what you are acclimated to. I anticipate you're a abundant ancestors and I'm animated I'm activity to accompany you. Afterwards the airless chat we accept at our banquet table, this is like a animation of beginning air. Brian never capital to do anything. Life was stagnant. So Mike, my present husband, was a animation of beginning air.Learn more: air, breath, fresh, of

a animation of beginning air

1 a baby bulk of or a abrupt time in the beginning air. 2 a auspicious change, abnormally a new being on the scene.Learn more: air, breath, fresh, of

a animation of beginning ˈair

a being or affair that is new and altered and accordingly absorbing and exciting: Having these adolescent bodies active with us is like a animation of beginning air afterwards years on our own.Learn more: air, breath, fresh, of

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