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blow out one's bags

blow out one's bags verb: to talk in a boastful or overweening manner.

Verb

blow out one's bags (third-person singular simple present blows out one's bags, present participle blowing out one's bags, simple past blew out one's bags, past participle blown out one's bags)

  1. (slang) To talk in a boastful or overweening manner.
    • 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
    • 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

Forms of blow out one's bags

third-person singular presentblows out one's bags
present participleblowing out one's bags
pastblew out one's bags
past participleblown out one's bags

Questions about blow out one's bags

What does blow out one's bags mean?
Blow out one's bags means to talk in a boastful or overweening manner.
What part of speech is blow out one's bags?
Blow out one's bags is a verb.
What is the past tense of blow out one's bags?
The past tense of blow out one's bags is blew out one's bags.

Words near blow out one's bags in the dictionary

  1. blow one's wig
  2. blow out
  3. blow out of proportion
  4. blow out of proportions
  5. blow out of the water
  6. blow out one's bags
  7. blow over
  8. blow past
  9. blow poke
  10. blow pokes
  11. blow sky high

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