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Kilimanjaro Posted 20 years ago
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blow away? or what?

0Imagine I am grilling fillet on a barbecue. I have a piece of newspaper / cardboard / box board etc..to direct the wind towards the flame.(sort of bellows function)02br
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00What am I doing? Am I blowing the wind or barbecue? how do you express this action? Is there a phrasal verb for this?0-
  

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0 redirect some wind over the barbecue, cause some air drift over the barbecue0-

— Marius Hancu

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10Marius thank you. But this is a long wording. What do you say to your friend when you have a barbecue? Do you say?02br
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00 "Hey John! redirect some wind over the
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10make some of that wind/air come over here12br
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10Ok I like "blow over the barbecue". Thank you very much Marius.0-
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0Hey John, I need something to divert the wind toward the flame here... got any cardboard? 02br
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00I thought at first you mean "fanning" the flame, which is what you do when you wave the paper/cardboard up and down (or back and forth) to create a breeze. 02br
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00I've honestly never seen anyone show that level of devotion to the flame before, so I d
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0 GG is right, I've just thought myself about01i00 fanning02i00:02br
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    00... how to light the charcoal fire on the 01b00barbecue02b00 when I was a teenager. ... of practice, I know I need to 01b00blow some air02b00
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