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"etymology_text": "From a scene in the film Scarface (1983), in which drug dealer Tony Montana (Al Pacino) is mocked for excessively consuming cocaine from his own inventory.\n:\n1983, Oliver Stone, Scarface, spoken by Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer):\nElvira Hancock: Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply.",
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"(of a drug dealer) Using the drugs which one sells, especially to excess."
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"ref": "2013 June 10, Jonathan Owen, James Cameron: 'Don't get high on your own supply', Independent (UK) (retrieved 28 July 2021)",
"text": "The relentless pursuit of realising his imagination on the big screen has come at a personal cost. […] The director admits he used to play up to the \"image of what a film-maker was supposed to be. […] [D]on't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply.\""
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"ref": "2019 November 10, Paul Krugman, Luckily, Trump Is an Unstable Non-Genius, New York Times (retrieved 28 July 2021)",
"text": "Trump […] seems to have gotten high on his own supply — he actually seems to believe the bizarre conspiracy theories his supporters drum up to excuse his actions."
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"ref": "2020 November 4, Hank Stuever, Election night TV was high anxiety, flat comedy, Washington Post (retrieved 28 July 2021)",
"text": "Tapper reminded viewers that there had been a lot of magical thinking lately on the part of Democrats and liberal pundits, who spent too much time entertaining pie-in-the-sky dreams […] imagining a landslide victory for Biden. \"As they say, 'You can’t get high on your own supply,'\" Tapper zinged."
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"(figurative) Assigning too much credibility to exaggerated favorable descriptions of one's character, achievements, or prospects; intoxicated by one's own braggadocio; enamored with one's own overvalued public image."
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},
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