lead balloon

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English

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noun

"After the collusion story proved a bust, there was an attempt to blow some life into the obstruction of justice charge. But that was a lead balloon with the American people."
"He does it because it establishes the primary deniability of "I was just trolling" when his lead balloons fail to go over"

From go down like a lead balloon and similar expressions.

lead balloons (plural)

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Where does lead balloon come from?

From go down like a lead balloon and similar expressions.

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