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cock-a-hoop

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ADJECTIVE
  1. exhibiting self-importance
    big talk

How To Use cock-a-hoop In A Sentence

  • Students were cock-a-hoop as they collected their results allowing them to go on to study for A-levels or take their first steps into employment.
  • Far from being worried, I suspect Sir David is cock-a-hoop at the comparison.
  • Already the cock-a-hoop Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, licensed by Murdoch's rivals to bring about his downfall, are calling for statutory curbs on media ownership. The Murdoch story is not a Berlin Wall moment – just daft hysteria | Simon Jenkins
  • In contrast, the candidate's supporters were cock-a-hoop.
  • If it is not, then many MEPs will be cock-a-hoop.
  • In summary then, you could say that I wasn't exactly cock-a-hoop when the summer holidays ended and the new school year began.
  • I was cock-a-hoop when most of my subjects seemed to respond positively to the stimulus most of the time. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • Why are the workers not entirely cock-a-hoop about the plans?
  • Villagers were cock-a-hoop today after the Army stepped in to save a new village hall that has stood empty for 14 years.
  • Every politician likes to be associated with good news and he was cock-a-hoop.
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