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have tickets on oneself

have tickets on oneself verb: to be conceited.

Verb

have tickets on oneself (third-person singular simple present has tickets on oneself, present participle having tickets on oneself, simple past and past participle had tickets on oneself)

  1. (Australia, derogatory) To be conceited.
    • Getting some feedback from others is heaps better than having tickets on yourself about your skills.
    • Lucy didn′t blame him for having tickets on himself. Anybody who got out of the flats deserved to have tickets on himself. One day her Brian was going to have tickets on himself.1975, Valerie Elliston, Coward′s Paradise, page 149

Forms of have tickets on oneself

third-person singular presenthas tickets on oneself
present participlehaving tickets on oneself
past participlehad tickets on oneself
pasthad tickets on oneself

Questions about have tickets on oneself

What does have tickets on oneself mean?
Have tickets on oneself means to be conceited.
What part of speech is have tickets on oneself?
Have tickets on oneself is a verb.
What is the past tense of have tickets on oneself?
The past tense of have tickets on oneself is had tickets on oneself.

Words near have tickets on oneself in the dictionary

  1. have the world by the nuts
  2. have the world by the tail
  3. have the world by the tail on a downhill pull
  4. have the world by the testicles
  5. have the world on a string
  6. have tickets on oneself
  7. have time
  8. have time on one's hands
  9. have time on one's side
  10. have to
  11. have to say for oneself

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