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fancy pants

['fænsɪpænts]
inf., disappr. a person wearing fancy clothing; a member of a social elite (From what I hear fancy pants is dancing real good with that fat pig. wiktionary.org); a person very concerned with their appearance (This fancy pants is tryin' to steal my gal away from me! wiktionary.org); an overly dressed up person (With his Fedora and his high end wines, he's your basic fancy pants and then some. urbandictionary.com); an over-sophisticated person or thing (With his Fedora and his high end wines, he's your basic fancy pants and then some. urbandictionary.com)
fancy-pants
inf., disappr. overly fancy with little function; newfangled; complicated (What are you planning to do with that fancy-pants machine? wiktionary.orgFortified by years of greasy spoon eating, he's since borrowed nicer clothes to sneak into the more fancy-pants places.The front room is a fun, inclusive (read: sing-along) place, with the back reserved for more fancy-pants cabaret events); superior or high-class in a pretentious way (A fancy-pants restaurant lexico.comIn fact, I don't even think the fancy-pants restaurant has a changing table in the bathroom.No fancy-pants lawyer would be able to sandbag me with illogical arguments, or Oprah melodrama.That's why I was very excited to discover a small oasis of fancypants food in my neighborhood, called Choice.When I was a kid we had to wear turtle shells and we didn't have any fancypants space Velcro to keep them on.He is leaving the midwest and moving to fancy-pants San Francisco for some girl.Many feature films make him wear a fancy-pants wig.Anyway, I ordered some kind of fancy-pants beer from Ireland, called Smithwick's or some deal.If you have a fancy-pants burning program, use that.They put me up in this really fancy-pants place.Felidia is this fancy-pants restaurant owned by Lydia, who is apparently a chef with a show on PBS.Lisa's wary of expensive over-priced fancy-pants food.I persisted, and we agreed that I could take the class with all these fancypants designers on probation.Their money is as green as any fancy-pants grant.I'm from West Virginia and don't usually go in for such fancy-pants things, but my wife convinced me to give it a try.Toney and I attended a "travel show" last Saturday, at the new fancy-pants Hilton in downtown Scranton.Beyond using simple, accurate language, you can use fancy-pants words."Blanching" is simply a fancy-pants way of saying boil for a minute or two.Sometimes those fancy-pants restaurants are all style and no substance, but this place delivered.And I venture to suggest that he makes most literary fancypants self-obsessives look like the rank amateurs that they are.I owe you kitchenfuls of baked goods filled with expensive chocolate and fancy-pants butter.); pretentious or fancy in an extreme or excessive way (Use of this phrase often indicates the speaker's annoyance • I'd rather go to a ball game than another one of your fancy-pants corporate events. thefreedictionary.comWe don't need a fancy-pants vacuum, we just need one that can suck up dirt.); overly elegant or refined; la-di-da (merriam-webster.com); fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified (collinsdictionary.com)

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