| 词汇 | too big for one-s breeches |
| 词源 | too big for one’s breeches. Describing someone obsessed with his own importance, too big for one’s breeches is first re- corded in the work of Davy Crockett—born on a mountaintop in Tennessee (1786), died at the Alamo (1836)—congressman and frontier hero, whose life was a tall tale. |
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