blow out one's bags

verb

To talk in a boastful or overweening manner.

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Meanings

verbblow out one's bags (third-person singular simple present blows out one's bags, present participle blowing out one's bags, simple past blew out one's bags, past participle blown out one's bags)

present singular third person blows out one's bags · participle present blowing out one's bags · past blew out one's bags · participle past blown out one's bags

  1. slangTo talk in a boastful or overweening manner.

    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.

    1966, Gordon Greenwood, Modern India, page 312
    1 more example

    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.

    1942, Western Australia. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, page 273
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