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drop names



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Idioms and Phrases

Refer to important persons as acquaintances in order to impress the listener. For example, Her habit of dropping names made everyone very skeptical about her veracity . [Mid-1900s]
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Example Sentences

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I don’t mean to drop names — Tom Hanks.

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She didn’t have to work hard to drop names, because names seemed to fall from the sky.

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And then years ago, not to drop names, but I was at a Neil Young show.

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He could drop names as carelessly as country singers drop g’s, and, as the walls of his trophy room attested, he had some big names to drop — though he was devoted to friends from the old neighborhood in Brooklyn he’d meet Saturdays for breakfast at Nate & Al’s.

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While Pritchard didn’t drop names or directly criticize McMillan, he did discuss what he is looking for.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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