strutting one's stuff

Verb

strut one's stuff (third-person singular simple present struts one's stuff, present participle strutting one's stuff, simple past and past participle strutted one's stuff)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To behave or perform in a showy or ostentatious manner, as if to impress others; to show off.
   • When I'm out walking, I strut my stuff / Yeah, and I'm so strung out / I'm high as a kite, I just might / Stop to check you out1983, Gordon Gano, “Blister in the Sun”, in Violent Femmes, performed by Violent Femmes

   Synonyms:

   cut a wide swath, fluff one's feathers, preen, aura farm, boulevardier, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away, flamboast