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blow out one's bags en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (slang) To talk in a boastful or overweening manner.
    • My experience has been that the people who blow out their bags and who say I have power are the ones who haven't enough else to do. 1966, Gordon Greenwood, Modern India, page 312:
    • After that Premiers came back from the Eastern States and blew out their bags, declaring that they had secured certain advantages, that they had obtained so many more million pounds to disburse. 1942, Western Australia. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 273:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
blown out one's bags Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blows out one's bags Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
blowing out one's bags Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
blew out one's bags Tense=Past lexicographic