See καβαλάω το καλάμι in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"form": "kavaláo to kalámi",
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"text": "(act with an undue opinion of one's own importance or abilities)"
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"to be too big for one's boots, to be too big for one's britches, to get above oneself, be full of oneself, to think of oneself as the cat's meow, to act all high and mighty, to put on airs, to think the sun comes up just to hear them crow, to be on one's high horse, to be all broth and no beans, to be all hat and no cattle, to have a big head, to act puffed up, act stuck up, be on an ego trip, to be a stuffed shirt, to need a slice of humble pie, to think the world revolves around oneself"
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"above oneself",
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"full of oneself",
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"cat's meow",
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"high and mighty",
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"(colloquial, idiomatic) to be too big for one's boots, to be too big for one's britches, to get above oneself, be full of oneself, to think of oneself as the cat's meow, to act all high and mighty, to put on airs, to think the sun comes up just to hear them crow, to be on one's high horse, to be all broth and no beans, to be all hat and no cattle, to have a big head, to act puffed up, act stuck up, be on an ego trip, to be a stuffed shirt, to need a slice of humble pie, to think the world revolves around oneself"
],
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"act haughty, be cocky, be supercilious, be narcissistic, overconfident, hoity-toity, boastful, sanctimonious, pompous, smug, snooty, conceited, to have or act as if having a superiority complex"
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"examples": [
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"text": "(act with an undue opinion of one's own importance or abilities)"
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"to be too big for one's boots, to be too big for one's britches, to get above oneself, be full of oneself, to think of oneself as the cat's meow, to act all high and mighty, to put on airs, to think the sun comes up just to hear them crow, to be on one's high horse, to be all broth and no beans, to be all hat and no cattle, to have a big head, to act puffed up, act stuck up, be on an ego trip, to be a stuffed shirt, to need a slice of humble pie, to think the world revolves around oneself"
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"links": [
[
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"too big for one's boots",
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],
[
"too big for one's britches",
"too big for one's britches"
],
[
"above oneself",
"above oneself"
],
[
"full of oneself",
"full of oneself"
],
[
"cat's meow",
"cat's meow"
],
[
"high and mighty",
"high and mighty"
],
[
"put on airs",
"put on airs"
],
[
"high horse",
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],
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"all hat and no cattle",
"all hat and no cattle"
],
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"big head",
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],
[
"puffed up",
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],
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"stuck up",
"stuck up"
],
[
"ego trip",
"ego trip"
],
[
"stuffed shirt",
"stuffed shirt"
],
[
"humble pie",
"humble pie"
],
[
"think the world revolves around oneself",
"think the world revolves around one"
]
],
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"(colloquial, idiomatic) to be too big for one's boots, to be too big for one's britches, to get above oneself, be full of oneself, to think of oneself as the cat's meow, to act all high and mighty, to put on airs, to think the sun comes up just to hear them crow, to be on one's high horse, to be all broth and no beans, to be all hat and no cattle, to have a big head, to act puffed up, act stuck up, be on an ego trip, to be a stuffed shirt, to need a slice of humble pie, to think the world revolves around oneself"
],
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"colloquial",
"idiomatic"
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"act haughty, be cocky, be supercilious, be narcissistic, overconfident, hoity-toity, boastful, sanctimonious, pompous, smug, snooty, conceited, to have or act as if having a superiority complex"
],
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"word": "καβαλάω το καλάμι"
}
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