καβαλάω το καλάμι

Greek

Verb

καβαλάω το καλάμι • (kavaláo to kalámi) (literally: ride the stick)

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic) to be too big for one's boots, to be too big for one's britches, to get above oneself, be full of oneself, to think of oneself as the cat's meow, to act all high and mighty, to put on airs, to think the sun comes up just to hear them crow, to be on one's high horse, to be all broth and no beans, to be all hat and no cattle, to have a big head, to act puffed up, act stuck up, be on an ego trip, to be a stuffed shirt, to need a slice of humble pie, to think the world revolves around oneself
    (act with an undue opinion of one's own importance or abilities)
  2. act haughty, be cocky, be supercilious, be narcissistic, overconfident, hoity-toity, boastful, sanctimonious, pompous, smug, snooty, conceited, to have or act as if having a superiority complex
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