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fancy-pants

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fancy-pants  (American & Australian informal)
trying to seem too attractive or too clever in a way that is false (always before noun) We liked the restaurant's food but not the fancy-pants decor. I don't know what she sees in that fancy-pants college professor of hers.


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Just imagine some of the tweaker art displayed along side some fancy-pants art fag's art.
In tonight's two-hour pilot, Clint ends up in New York because he met a fancy-pants lady magazine writer; as soon as they reach the Big Apple, all you can wonder is, what did they ever see in each other in the first place?
One longs for some kind of social or economic theory that would more elaborately explain the strength of American society in the 1940s - but that would seem to O'Neill like fancy-pants intellectual stuff.
 
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