"I'm glad you didn't load him down with some
highfalutin, romantic name that he'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather.
All Moscow repeated Prince Dolgorukov's saying: "If you go on modeling and modeling you must get smeared with clay," suggesting consolation for our defeat by the memory of former victories; and the words of Rostopchin, that French soldiers have to be incited to battle by
highfalutin words, and Germans by logical arguments to show them that it is more dangerous to run away than to advance, but that Russian soldiers only need to be restrained and held back!
"An' you, Em, look more
highfalutin' than a peacock," he replied.
There was nothing
highfalutin about her company manners--it was by this homely phrase that he differentiated this Dede on horseback from the Dede with the office manners whom he had always known.
Did that young man who spoke so
highfalutin' get her?"
But no; you wouldn't listen, you with your
highfalutin' notions an' more pairs of shoes than any decent woman should have.
The number two office in terms of state hierarchy sounds powerful but is in actual fact just
highfalutin.
I don't really go for fancy spas with
highfalutin treatments like seaweed wraps, caviar massages, and I kid you not, there are even Evian baths and gold facials.
The best practicing lawyers are not the obnoxious charlatans who try to impress with
highfalutin irrelevancies; they are the tireless writers of term sheets, memoranda, contracts, treaties, complaints, answers, motions, briefs and memorials; and, the best jurists are the rippling authors of decisions and orders.
Highfalutin chefs may be aghast as she unashamedly uses tinned potatoes for her roast, or sprinkles dried herbs.
It typically provides a
highfalutin title, visa privileges, and, most importantly, money.
Neighbour of
highfalutin, highly priced Edgbaston, Harborne has always been the go-to area for academics at the university and doctors at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.