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Put on airs

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

    "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."

  2. 2
    act like the master of wordnet

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