fancy-pants

• “Two decades ago, she moved to Massachusetts to become what she called a "fancy-pants professor at Harvard.”

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• “Really, dishes kind of stink too, especially after cooking fancy-pants dinners that require lots of pots and pans.”

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• “Without a hint of an accent, and carrying himself like a cultured city-boy, Jesse, a supposed farm worker-cum-grocery clerk, seems to have an endless supply of cash in his wallet (chained to his belt, natch), not to mention a fancy-pants camera (which might have also benefited from being chained down – it disappears during the story).”

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• “My less fancy-pants 89 cent Safeway Hot Dog buns, however, have the mystery code "JW 158" and "S8111.”

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• “Of course, I'd take Gehry over Modernist bores like Corbusier and Mies any day, whose own purportedly practical aesthetic frequently didn't work very well, relying on fancy-pants technology to solve problems inherited common-sense could have fixed from the get-go.”

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• “I still love those guys, been reading it since back when it was SliceNY and I still catch up with it every few weeks, but the over the top worship of fancy-pants pies gets a bit old after awhile.”

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• “For the frugal-minded readers, the total cost of all the ingredients I used (including the same fancy-pants olive oil I made the mix with) came out to $4. 21CDN.”

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• “Could Joe Biden's long-term skepticism of the newfangled, fancy-pants counterinsurgency techniques favored by retired General Petraeus now get traction?”

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• “Now all the other Jesus Freaks will mock him for having a pink Bible, like one of those fancy-pants Sodomites, and they'll have no choice but to stone him to death.”

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• “She moved on to Hollywood talent agency CAA, which she described jokingly that night as a "glorified temp agency for fancy-pants people.”

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