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Having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements

Being in a clean and tidy state

Able to provide for oneself independently of others

Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating

Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful

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Having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements

patronizing^US

patronising^UK

too big for your boots

moralizing^US

moralising^UK

pleased with yourself

too big for your breeches

too big for your britches

to keep up appearances

think too highly of oneself

on your high horse

self-involved

self-seeking

have an excessively high opinion of oneself

think a lot of oneself

blowing one's own horn

throwing one's weight around

think one is the cat's whiskers

think one is God's gift

think one is the cat's pyjamas

wrapped up in oneself

like a cat that has swallowed the canary

like the cat that swallowed the canary

flushed with success

like the cat that's got the cream

throwing one's weight about

smart-assed^US

resting on your laurels

mimsy

bold as brass

smart-arsed^UK

out of line

like the cat that got the cream

sermonic

unco guid

offensively self-assertive

phony^US

phoney^UK

humourless^UK

humorless^US

blowing one's own trumpet

turning up your nose at

looking down your nose at

not backwards in coming forwards

of preconceived ideas

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“He winked at me, and I wanted to knock out a few teeth in that smug smile he flashed at me.”

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Being in a clean and tidy state

shipshape and Bristol fashion

organized^US

organised^UK

as if one had just stepped out of a bandbox

as if you had just stepped out of a bandbox

flamboyant

dressed up to the nines

chiseled^US

chiselled^UK

favoured^UK

favored^US

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“It was a smug room, books lining the walls and suffocating one with implied prestige and eminence.”

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Able to provide for oneself independently of others

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Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating

grovelling^UK

groveling^US

phoney^UK

phony^US

sniveling^US

snivelling^UK

civilized^US

excessively deferential

civilised^UK

laid on with a trowel

lionizing^US

lionising^UK

of an even consistency

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Exuberantly or triumphantly joyful

like a child with a new toy

as pleased as Punch

well pleased

like a dog with two tails

full of the joys of spring

without a care in the world

bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

full of vim and vigour

beside oneself with happiness

beside oneself with joy

as merry as a grig

tickled to death

in transports of delight

delirious with happiness

as happy as a sandboy

turned on

doing handsprings

in a frenzy of delight

revelling^UK

reveling^US

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