swamp gas

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And swirling around the Princess of Wales’s illness, as she continues with cancer treatment, has been a toxic swamp gas of social media gossip and crazy speculation.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2024

The Air Force officials attributed the incident to "swamp gas", leading Ford to deride their description as "flippant" .

From BBC • May 17, 2022

More fevered yet, and more feared, is the swamp gas that gets belched up from the entrails of the earth, and can asphyxiate the drillers on a rig.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 22, 2019

I'd always been positively interested in UFO's as, well, not just swamp gas.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2017

It’s late July, the Toronto humidity hangs like swamp gas over the city, and the air-conditioning at the Swiss Chalet broke down today.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood