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单词 too big for one's boots (or dated breeches)
释义

too big for one's boots (or dated breeches)

informal Conceited.Basically, they think you're too big for your boots and want you cut down to size....
  • After his eldest boy's graduation ceremony he said: ‘Don't get too big for your boots, son.’
  • If you've got wealth, privilege or exalted connections crowned with success, then in this country you are judged way too big for your boots and in need of an urgent reality check.

Synonyms

conceited, full of oneself, cocky, boastful, arrogant, cocksure, above oneself, self-important, immodest, swaggering, strutting;
vain, self-satisfied, self-congratulatory, pleased with oneself, self-loving, in love with oneself, self-admiring, self-regarding, smug, complacent
informal big-headed, swollen-headed
literary vainglorious
rare peacockish
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