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put on airs
Idioms and Phrases
Assume a haughty manner, pretend to be better than one is, as in I'm sick of Claire and the way she puts on airs. Airs here means “a manner of superiority.†[c. 1700]Example Sentences
Japan’s colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 introduced loanwords including gao, Japanese for “face,†adapted into Korean as “put on gao,†which means to put on airs.
Zaluzhny was already known as an ambitious and modern commander, but also an unpretentious man who liked to joke with his subordinates and didn't put on airs.
Mr. Silvestri, who once waited on Ms. Turner, said she did not put on airs.
Adams, who identifies as two-spirit — the term used by Indigenous communities for those who are nonbinary — did not put on airs.
Sometimes you get intimidated by people because of their intellect, but she never put on airs.
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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 Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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