high-falutin

• “It added that, "Granite Staters prefer hard-working and humble to high-falutin' and haughty.”

  The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - White House Says We're Not At War, Just Sending Armed People To Places

• “Now unless Mitt Romney was showing off his brand-new Rolls-Royce Springfield Silver Ghost Oxford Tourer to a bunch of Janes and suggested that he take them in his hayburner down to gem of a juice joint in Atlantic City, we don't know if "high-falutin'" and "haughty" are the period-appropriate words.”

  The Huffington Post: HUFFPOST HILL - White House Says We're Not At War, Just Sending Armed People To Places

• “That sort of talk may sound fine to high-falutin' types like you but the rest of us have to live in the “real world.””

  Fictionaut: The Language Monitor

• “Not because it is frou-frou and high-falutin, but because it represents Big Corporatism.”

  Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks

• “A glance at the top 10 ebooks downloaded from London libraries this week reveals the capital's tech-savvy borrowers have an appetite for less high-falutin 'titles.”

  The Guardian: Ebook restrictions leave libraries facing virtual lockout

• “Thanks to an out-of-left-field tragedy, compounded by a second reveal at the hour's end, trashy twin Bridget wound up slipping in to her high-falutin' sis Siobhan's identity and finding out that the glamorous life can be just as slimy and treacherous as her old days as a stripper with a smack problem.”

  Did You Go Through the Ringer for SMG?

• “For supporters without high-falutin' city jobs the message is clear: remortgage or relocate.”

  The Guardian: QPR Premier League 2011-12 team guide

• “Yes, Krauthammer would have to plead guilty to what Palin would deride as high-falutin'' educational credentials: he studied at Oxford and earned his MD at Harvard Medical School.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Notable

• “But finally, for absolute serenity after days of raucous throngs and high-falutin' chatter, there's Jaipur's latest jaw-dropping showpiece: the breath-taking, 18th-century Jal Mahal pleasure palace, on view after five years of intensive restoration, replete with carved marble, shimmering frescoes, and a jasmine-scented garden.”

  The Huffington Post: Victoria Lautman: Palaces, Camels, Salman, and Oprah: If It's January, It Must be the Jaipur Literature Festival

• “An apocryphal story, perhaps, but the high-falutin 'Supreme Court of the United States has the same attitude toward America -- this would be such a great country if it wasn't for all the noise and people.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Winship: The Supreme Court Says No to the People - Again

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