Verb
put on airs
- (idiomatic) To become haughty, to assume a pretentious manner.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
- 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.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:
- French: donner des airs, prendre des airs
- German: aufspielen
- Italian: darsi delle arie
- Portuguese: empinar o nariz, erguer o nariz
- Russian: ва́жничать
- Spanish: darse aires, darse tono, hacer el paripé
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