have tickets on oneself

verb

To be conceited.

“Getting some feedback from others is heaps better than having tickets on yourself about your skills.”

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Meanings

verbhave tickets on oneself (third-person singular simple present has tickets on oneself, present participle having tickets on oneself, simple past and past participle had tickets on oneself)

present singular third person has tickets on oneself · participle present having tickets on oneself · participle past had tickets on oneself · past had tickets on oneself

  1. AustraliaderogatoryTo be conceited.

    Getting some feedback from others is heaps better than having tickets on yourself about your skills.

    3 more examples

    Lucy didn′t blame him for having tickets on himself. Anybody who got out of the flats deserved to have tickets on himself. One day her Brian was going to have tickets on himself.

    1975, Valerie Elliston, Coward′s Paradise, page 149

    Little Swannie has got big tickets on himself.

    2005, Mark Latham, The Latham Diaries, page 204

    2007 June 19, Ben Doherty, "Lawyer died as he lived," The Age, "Our nickname for him was "Tickets", because he had tickets on himself," Mr Thompson said. "He was a good sportsman, but he also loved to tell us how good he was."

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