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To blow great guns. To be very boisterous and windy. Noisy and boisterous as the reports of great guns.
To run away from their own guns. To eat their own words; desert what is laid down as a principle. The allusion is obvious.
“The Government could not, of course, run away from their guns.”—Nineteenth Century, Feb., 1893, p. 193.
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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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