Meaning of blow out one's bags | Babel Free

Definitions

To talk in a boastful or overweening manner.

slang

Examples

“After that Premiers came back from the Eastern States and blew out their bags, declaring that they had secured certain advantages, that they had obtained so many more million pounds to disburse.”

“My experience has been that the people who blow out their bags and who say I have power are the ones who haven't enough else to do.”

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