One last and minor type of adjectives that can be inserted in PhUs is made up of resultative
adjectives. They modify the core nominal constituent of the idiom by means of a fairly limited
(28) After all, as the Times asserts, they have “manufactured their own weapon of
intellectual mass destruction, and have disappeared in the resulting puff of smoke”. (The
Guardian, October 9 2004)
In (28) the noun phrase puff of smoke is remotivated and both the idiomatic and the non-
idiomatic readings are possible.
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