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Too Big For One's Breeches

Definition: Too Big For One's Breeches

Too Big For One's Breeches

Adjective

1. Used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety".

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Synonyms: Too Big For One's Breeches

Synonyms: bigheaded (adj), persnickety (adj), snooty (adj), snot-nosed (adj), snotty (adj), stuck-up (adj), uppish (adj). (additional references)

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Alternative Orthography: Too Big For One's Breeches


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 6F      42 69 67      46 6F 72      4F 6E 65 27 73      42 72 65 65 63 68 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

                

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01000010 01101001 01100111 00100000 01000110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01001111 01101110 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01000010 01110010 01100101 01100101 01100011 01101000 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#111 &#32 &#66 &#105 &#103 &#32 &#70 &#111 &#114 &#32 &#79 &#110 &#101 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#66 &#114 &#101 &#101 &#99 &#104 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 006F      0042 0069 0067      0046 006F 0072      004F 006E 0065 0027 0073      0042 0072 0065 0065 0063 0068 0065 0073

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54818123675732408184249807198523684717169747185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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