fancy-pants

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  • For this crowd, realism is merely a fancy-pants word used by the experts who lost the policy battle and want to claim the winners didn't weigh our vital interests correctly. —  News & Record Article Feed
  • He'll usually be wearing some sort of billion-dollar, fancy-pants armour that regenerates health, but never seems to have a zipper for toilet breaks. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Forget AmEx's fancy-pants communication tools, and vote with your own humble pocketbook. —  About.com Parenting Special Needs
  • Alfa Romeo MiTo GTA: Pipe Dreams Still in concept form but now in real pictures instead of PR gloss, here's the Alfa's Mitsubishi iMiEV Sport Air Concept: Similar Body, Tron-Like Interior The fancy-pants magazine attached to cords has whipped up a rendering of the —  Jalopnik
  • Yeah, I made high-end s'meeps with the fancy-pants chocolate … so what? —  Je Mange la Ville
 

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