flatter oneself

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flatter oneself 的定义

  1. Be gratified vainly by one's own achievement; exaggerate one's good points. For example, He flattered himself that his presentation at the sales conference was a success, or She flattered herself that she was by far the best skater at the rink. This usage is often put negatively, as in Don't flatter yourself—we haven't won the contract yet. [Late 1500s]

flatter oneself 近义词

flatter oneself

等同于 plume

flatter oneself

等同于 pride

flatter oneself

等同于 boast

flatter oneself

等同于 gasconade

更多flatter oneself例句

  1. The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
  2. Perhaps there is something too painful about throwing oneself too deep into what went wrong.
  3. When one plays life that way, one in a way awakes creative vital energies in oneself that otherwise are not available.
  4. How many details are needed, after all, before one can say to oneself, “This is what I have lost?”
  5. And so the reaction seems to be to corral oneself off from disagreement.
  6. She seemed to imply that I was a modest soldier, and if there is a way to flatter a man it is to call him modest.
  7. The habit of refreshing oneself with a pipe on some elevated spot which commands a fine view, is common to both sexes.
  8. He urged, that it would flatter the peculiarities of her character, and might conciliate her good offices for his liberty.
  9. To suddenly discover oneself proficient where failure had been feared increases self esteem and adds to the sum of happiness.
  10. He afterwards enlarged his model and adopted a flatter pattern, and arrived at the greatest perfection about 1700.