| 词汇 | toffee-nosed |
| 释义 | toffee-nosed adjective UKinformaldisapprovinguk /ˈtɒf.i.nəʊzd/ us /ˈtɑː.fi.noʊzd/ People who are toffee-nosed consider themselves to be better than other people, especially than people of a lower social class: （尤指在地位低于自己者面前）自命不凡的，妄自尊大的 He's a toffee-nosed git - take no notice of him!他是个自命不凡的蠢货——别理他！ Showing arrogance and conceit (as) proud as Luciferidiom airs and gracesidiom arrogant arrogantly as if you owned the placeidiom egoistic egoistically egomaniacal egomaniacally egotistic patronizing patronizingly pomposity pompous pompously swaggerer swollen head swollen-headed talk down to someone think the (whole) world revolves around youidiom Examples of toffee-nosedtoffee-nosed It was a bit of a laugh, really, some of those toffee-nosed people having to queue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is nothing to be "toffee-nosed" about: it is common sense so far as keeping an allotment is concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Birks, in her own style, tried to make the magazine more much further mainstream, not just for the toffee-nosed or the literary. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Other origins include the abbreviation of toffee-nosed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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