too big for one's breeches English

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too big for one's breeches

— adjective (= persnickety, snotty, stuck-up) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant a snotty little scion of a degenerate family — Laurent Le Sage they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety