high-falutin

Yes, Krauthammer would have to plead guilty to what Palin would deride as high-falutin'' educational credentials: he studied at Oxford and earned his MD at Harvard Medical School.

Notable 2011

It added that, "Granite Staters prefer hard-working and humble to high-falutin' and haughty."

HUFFPOST HILL - White House Says We're Not At War, Just Sending Armed People To Places Eliot Nelson 2011

Not because it is frou-frou and high-falutin, but because it represents Big Corporatism.

Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks 2009

For supporters without high-falutin' city jobs the message is clear: remortgage or relocate.

QPR Premier League 2011-12 team guide 2011

A glance at the top 10 ebooks downloaded from London libraries this week reveals the capital's tech-savvy borrowers have an appetite for less high-falutin 'titles.

Ebook restrictions leave libraries facing virtual lockout Benedicte Page 2010

Not because it is frou-frou and high-falutin, but because it represents Big Corporatism.

Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks 2009

Now unless Mitt Romney was showing off his brand-new Rolls-Royce Springfield Silver Ghost Oxford Tourer to a bunch of Janes and suggested that he take them in his hayburner down to gem of a juice joint in Atlantic City, we don't know if "high-falutin'" and "haughty" are the period-appropriate words.

HUFFPOST HILL - White House Says We're Not At War, Just Sending Armed People To Places Eliot Nelson 2011

It added that, "Granite Staters prefer hard-working and humble to high-falutin' and haughty."

HUFFPOST HILL - White House Says We're Not At War, Just Sending Armed People To Places Eliot Nelson 2011

That sort of talk may sound fine to high-falutin' types like you but the rest of us have to live in the “real world.”

The Language Monitor Con Chapman 2011

Thanks to an out-of-left-field tragedy, compounded by a second reveal at the hour's end, trashy twin Bridget wound up slipping in to her high-falutin' sis Siobhan's identity and finding out that the glamorous life can be just as slimy and treacherous as her old days as a stripper with a smack problem.

Did You Go Through the Ringer for SMG? 2011