set yourself up as sth
UK often disapproving— phrasal verb with set uk/set/us/set/verb present participle setting, past tense and past participle set
to say that you are a particular type of person:
He sets himself up as an expert on vegetable growing, but he doesn't seem to me to know much about it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Assertions & asserting
- airing
- assert
- assertion
- attestation
- aver
- claim
- emphatic
- foot
- lay
- lay sth on the line idiom
- maintain
- make out sth
- misstate
- reaffirm
- set
- story
- take
- take it from me idiom
- take sth from sb
- that's my story and I'm sticking to it idiom
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