shoot a line

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shoot a line - show off

boast, brag, gasconade, vaunt, tout, gas, bluster, swash, blow

puff - speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man"

exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, magnify, overdraw - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

crow, gloat, triumph - dwell on with satisfaction

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