stuffed shirt | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)One who ispompousorself-important, especially one who is eitherofficiousorpunctiliousin a position of authority.Coordinate term:empty suit1914,Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 30, inThe Clarion‎[1]:"Don't you come the high-and-holy on me. You and your smooth, big, phonystuffed-shirtof a father."1941, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles,Citizen Kane(motion picture), spoken by Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), RKO Radio Pictures:Bernstein, am I astuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?1944,W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 5, inThe Razor’s Edge[…], 1st American edition, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Doran & Co.,→OCLC, section ii,page208:Oh? I remember, you came to Chicago once. Bit of astuffed shirt, aren't you?1952May 26, “Medicine: Mind Matters”, inTime‎[2], archived fromthe originalon1 December 2012:Dr. Laughlin was the only one in a movie party who detested the second male lead—"I regarded him as overserious, pedantic, astuffed shirt."2000July 10, Frederik Balfour, “Return of a Hong Kong Highflier”, inBusinessWeek‎[3]:The opportunistic style that was the bank's trademark still prevails and continues to attract talented young Hong Kongers looking for an alternative to thestuffed-shirtculture of most U.S. and European banks.

Examples:

EN: You're gonna make no stuffed shirt out of me.
ES: No vas a convertirme en un tipo engreído.
EN: Of women who'd waste time with a stuffed shirt like you?
ES: ¿De mujeres que pierden el tiempo con un pelele como tú?
EN: There's somebody that just knowing him... has made me realize what a stuffed shirt you are.
ES: He conocido a alguien... que me ha hecho comprender lo aburrido que eres.
EN: Personally. I think he's a stuffed shirt.
ES: Creo que es un fanfarrón.
EN: Alright, alright, beat it, stuffed shirt.
ES: Lárgate, fanfarrón.
EN: Hey, that stuffed shirt's got something on the ball.
ES: Oye, ese chulo es bastante inteligente.
EN: And you're a stuffed shirt and your face annoys me
ES: Y Ud un estirado, y su cara me molesta !
EN: I think you called me a stuffed shirt
ES: Creo que me llamó... "estirado".
EN: And without thinking further, I think I was a stuffed shirt
ES: Y, pensándolo después, creo que era un "estirado".
EN: Why don't you take off that stuffed shirt?
ES: ¿Y si me dejaras en paz?
EN: The silver-tongued stuffed shirt.
ES: Charlatán arrogante.
EN: Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt?
ES: Bernstein, ¿soy un hombre inflexible?
EN: Well, she just isn't in love with some old stuffed shirt.
ES: Bueno, ella no está enamorada de un viejo gordinflón.
EN: Who's an old stuffed shirt?
ES: ¿Quién es un viejo gordinflón?
EN: - The stuffed shirt. pyramid of ponderous, pulsating... pulchritudinous pachyderms!
ES: - La más grande... enorme, pirámide de colosos... gigantescos.. ¡Paquidermos!

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