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put on airs

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put on airs and give oneself airs
Fig. to act better than one really is; to pretend to be good or to be superior. Pay no attention to her. She is just putting on airs. Stop giving yourself airs and act like the rest of us.
See also: air, put


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They seldom put on airs, and the offer of a drink is a sure way to their hearts.
But I was raised in the United States, and I won't allow any one-horse chicken of the Land of Ev to run over me and put on airs, as long as I can lift a claw in self-defense.
I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what HE is.
 
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