| 单词 | to get too big for one's boots |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get (also grow, etc.) too big for one's boots (also breeches, etc.) P1. to get (also grow, etc.) too big for one's boots (also breeches, etc.): to develop too high an opinion of oneself; to become conceited, put on airs. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > be proud [verb (intransitive)] > grow proud to get (also grow, etc.) too big for one's boots (also breeches, etc.)1835 1835 D. Crockett Acct. Col. Crockett's Tour 152 When a man gets too big for his breeches, I say Good-bye. 1893 H. Maxwell Life W. H. Smith I. ii. 57 Sometimes a young man, ‘too big for his boots’, would..sniff at being put in charge of a railway bookstall. 1905 H. G. Wells Kipps iii. ii. §1 He's getting too big for 'is britches. 1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 270 You're getting a little too big for your pants. 1944 Fortune Mar. 89/1 (advt.) If we had put the heat on Congress to keep up the Army and Navy,..do you think the krauts would have gotten too big for their breeches? 1952 M. Laski Village xv A young man who was getting too big for his boots. 1998 Independent 16 Apr. ii. 1/3 As he sees it, the Met had to draw a line in the sand with two singers who had got too big for their boots. < as lemmas |
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