To look big. To assume a consequential air.
To talk big. To boast or brag.
“The archdeacon waxed wroth, talked big, and looked bigger.”—Trollope: The Warden, chap. 20.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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