out of puff informal
out of wind

We ran out of puff a bit at the end.

With some organisations, the feeling was they had run out of puff.

When it comes to an important issue like this, we are not going to run out of puff.

Though this auction must be running out of puff now.

Our boys ran out of puff late in the game allowing a further two goals against us.

Can build on last month's first handicap effort, when he seemed to run out of puff.

Or is this upswing about to run out of puff?

State your point of view when they run out of puff.

The players are giving me everything but they are just running out of puff.

That’s after the post rights issue technical rally, which may now be running out of puff.

Watmough got through 20 minutes but ran out of puff and was taken off.

It's a move that the boomers will be forced to make for their own protection when they run out of puff.

Three signs the cyclical recovery might be running out of puff.

We ran out of puff and I came fifth.

Spent much of the first half out of puff and injured.

Ran out of puff, but hard to blame him.

As the policy unfolds across 152 pages, however, it runs out of puff.

Perhaps there always comes a time when even prestige artworks run out of puff.

So the chief concern—for now, at least—is Japan’s export-driven economy, which appears fast to be running out of puff.

The government used to be keen on overhauling education but it has run out of puff.

"He should be running out of puff by now.

China's turbocharged investment and export model has run out of puff.

Here's an example - the picture below is "Out of Puff"

After this promising start the satire rapidly runs out of puff.

The engine is punchy enough up to 4,000rpm but fast runs out of puff beyond that.

The first three will be clear ahead unless they run out of wind.

I'd hate for these birds to run out of wind along here.

Why don't they make more games out of wind?

FT2 about to run out of wind and water.

Bill's too close to Greenwich, he'll run out of wind soon.

The hike back across the room seemed like miles, but they made it only slightly out of wind.

Sissy and me fought him until he was out of wind.

He was suddenly confronted by Colby, running and out of wind.

He not only knocked the guy out, but out of wind.

He ran out of wind and picked up his Racing Form.

I crossed a river, coming south out of Wind Plain.

The winds were not excessive, so perhaps an out of wind approach would have been preferable.

He did exactly that, sending us out of Wind Plain.

On one side are those who want to reduce carbon emissions by drawing electricity out of wind.

At least for the moment he was out of weapons and out of wind.

"The weather systems tend to pile up as you approach the continent and there's a much greater vulnerability to running out of wind."

You never seem lo run out of wind.

But they tell me you ran out of wind.' '

In Race 19 Jeff ran out of wind at the start and was never going to catch the front runners.

It's a mile, and you're out of wind already!

Just when the engine starts getting up a head of steam, it runs out of wind.

Next month I guard the rear end out of Wind River.

But, by then, we had run out of wind," Marples remembers. "

Then, suddenly, quite out of wind, he stopped.