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camp; talk large; put on airs (Азери); have an attitude (ad_notam) | |||
hotdog; sham; do something flashy | |||
flaunt (Maggie); strut (Maggie); boast (Maggie); parade (Maggie); show off (Maggie) | |||
gam | |||
ponce about (Anglophile); ponce around (Anglophile) | |||
prance (Vadim Rouminsky) | |||
cut a swath (Yeldar Azanbayev); grandstand (Yeldar Azanbayev); cut a swathe (Yeldar Azanbayev); swathe through (Yeldar Azanbayev); put on dog (a US expression first recorded in 1871, in a book by L. H. Bagg 'Four Years at Yale': "Dog, style, splurge. To put on dog, is to make a flashy display, to cut a swell".: It’s extraordinary how one yields to that fatal temptation to swank. It undoes the best of us. Nothing, I mean, would have been simpler than to reply that she had got the data twisted and that the authoritatively annotated edition was a present for Jeeves. But, instead of doing the simple, manly, straightforward thing, I had to go and put on dog. ‘Oh, rather,’ I said, with an intellectual flick of the umbrella. ‘When I have a leisure moment, you will generally find me curled up with Spinoza’s latest.’ -- мне нужно было выпендриться / повыпендриваться перед ней ART Vancouver) | |||
put on lugs (Anglophile); come that (domestos); perform (domestos); act up (domestos); sound off (domestos); showboat (domestos); be cute (VLZ_58); flex (В любом из вариантов перевода – демонстрировать собственные достижения или превосходство. Вероятно, первоначально, "демонстрировать гибкость, "шпагат" и т. п.". Vadim Rouminsky); get too clever (Ремедиос_П); do (suburbian); flat-hat (MichaelBurov) | |||
queen it (о женщине) | |||
be too cool for school (Амада Авея) | |||
show off (Notburga); blow hot air (VLZ_58); floss (Sun2day) | |||
play too fancy (VLZ_58) | |||
be puffed up; lay it on thick (Тут девок-то нет. Перед кем выпендриваться? – Who are you laying it on thick for? There aren't any girls around (Michele Berdy)) | |||
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show off (Maggie); pose (Maggie) | |||
Russian thesaurus | |||
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рисоваться (Andrey Truhachev) |
выпендриваться: 9 phrases in 4 subjects |
General | 4 |
Informal | 2 |
Makarov | 1 |
Slang | 2 |