put on frills | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)Toactin apretentiousorsnobbishway.Synonyms:give oneself airs,put on airs,show off1884December 10,Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 5”, inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade)[…], London:Chatto & Windus,[…],→OCLC:[…]he put his head in again, and cussed me forputting on frillsand trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone, he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn’t drop that.1921,W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, inThe Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands‎[1], New York: George H. Doran, page242:“She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know.”“I shouldn’t have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford toput on frills.”1956,Eugene O’Neill,Long Day’s Journey into Night‎[2], New Haven: Yale University Press, published2001, act 1, page31:[…]your sneers against Doctor Hardy are lies! He doesn’tput on frills, or have an office in a fashionable location, or drive around in an expensive automobile.

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