I was thinking about this in context of trophy hunters with the macho posturing and stuff but it needs to apply to anyone who thinks or pretends that what they are doing is very important or dangerous or difficult to do.
I feel like the words are right there in back of my head but can't seem to grab hold of it.
i put in bold those that i remember my lawyer grandfather using:
grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-minded, la-di-da (also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah),ostentatious, pompous, snippy airy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, high-toned, sententious, arrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic (also egoistical), egotistic, high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, imperious, important, overweening, presumptuous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vainglorious
A saying I’ve often heard is “too big for his boots”, meaning someone thinks they can accomplish things that they actually cannot.
