put on airs

VERB
  1. act like the master of
    He is lording it over the students
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How To Use put on airs In A Sentence

  • Beth didn't put on airs, and she liked people who were the same way.
  • Not for her the tendency to put on airs and throwing star tantrums.
  • don't put on airs with me
  • In any case, Byrne, who has been acting professionally since she was 13, isn't the type to put on airs.
  • Alice's sharp wit and blunt pronouncements could be intimidating, but if you didn't put on airs and weren't a fool, she was fiercely loyal and endlessly forgiving.
  • She didn't seem to put on airs or act as if she was better then him.
  • But then again, he had never been one to put on airs.
  • In Spanish sixteenth - and seventeenth - century authors the term acquired an ironic twist, as in the expression hacerse de los godos (“to claim nobil - ity, to put on airs”). CONCEPT OF GOTHIC
  • But she does not put on airs, as other girls do; she is quite natural and - though, I must admit, not my personal favourite - a lovely person.
  • Bella never put on airs and graces, remaining a real Blackpool girl.
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