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drop names
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]Example Sentences
I donât mean to drop names â Tom Hanks.
She didnât have to work hard to drop names, because names seemed to fall from the sky.
And then years ago, not to drop names, but I was at a Neil Young show.
He could drop names as carelessly as country singers drop gâs, and, as the walls of his trophy room attested, he had some big names to drop â though he was devoted to friends from the old neighborhood in Brooklyn heâd meet Saturdays for breakfast at Nate & Alâs.
While Pritchard didnât 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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