Idiom meaning, usage examples, facts
STUFFED SHIRTa man who is tiresome, pompous and self-important
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1. Stanley is a bit of a stuffed shirt. He’s arrogant and pompous and he tries to make everyone else think he’s so important.
2. We hate going to those business conventions. It’s just a bunch of stuffed shirts, sitting around trying to impress each other. Compare to: old fuddy-duddy. Describing someone as a stuffed shirt is clearly disparaging, whereas old fuddy-duddy describes someone who is a harmlessly and often humorously old-fashioned person. The expression stuffed shirt is always used to describe a man, never a woman. |
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