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the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener
the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it
How To Use name-dropping In A Sentence
- The properties have certainly been designed with the chattering classes in mind - practically every single room in every property is an exercise in name-dropping.
- Harvey is given to name-dropping, idealistic stream of consciousness rambles, sentence fragments and gushing enthusiasm.
- The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.
- Valentine is fictional, a character in Judith Krantz's Scruples, a book that positively sizzles with brand-name-dropping, put there not as paid product placement but as verisimilitude of an especially glamorous kind. Archive 2008-07-01
- Certainly you can't underestimate the good done by his championing of obscure bands to a wide audience, even if the way he did it smacked of name-dropping.
- the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it
- The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.
- What you are expert on is name-dropping. Times, Sunday Times
- No name-dropping, no technical language and don't expect the discussion to result in anything so banal as a conclusion.
- I must stop saying everyone famous is a good friend. It sounds as if I'm name-dropping.