- put on (grand) airs; extremely pompous; grow cocky; looking very dignified; lordly; overbearing; overweening pride; patronizing; proud as a peacock; very arrogant; with great show of pomp and circumstance:
Their overbearing bureaucracy and their self-satisfied airs are really more than one can stand.
他们那种神气十足的官僚架子实在叫人吃不消。