Meaning of put on frills | Babel Free

Definitions

To act in a pretentious or snobbish way.

dated, idiomatic

Examples

“[…] he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone, he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn’t drop that.”

““She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know.” “I shouldn’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills.””

“[…] your sneers against Doctor Hardy are lies! He doesn’t put on frills, or have an office in a fashionable location, or drive around in an expensive automobile.”

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