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Blow a Cloud

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To smoke a cigar or pipe. This term was in use in Queen Elizabeth’s reign.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bloody Wedding
Bloody Week (The)
Bloom
Bloomerism
Blount (Charles)
Blouse
1. Blow (To)
2. Blow (To)
3. Blow (To)
4. Blow
Blow a Cloud
Blow Me (an oath)
Blow Out (A)
Blow-point
Blown
Blown Herrings
Blown upon
Blowzelinda
Blowzy
Blubber
Blubber Cheeks