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put on airs

verb

Definitions

  1. To become haughty, to assume a pretentious manner.

    • Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government.
    • "Now what if I talked white-folks’ talk at church, and with my neighbors? They’d think I was puttin‘ on airs to beat Moses."

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