Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Big

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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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