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a beliveable yet untrue statement from a speaker, that is drunk with the excitement of their supposed ability to use big words.

an expression used to insult someone to their face about how they like to use big words because they think they are smart. thus using irony to get the sarcastic point across.
Smartass: I think you losers are Munificent abhorritions of society as we know it

Insulter: You are a Sophistical rhetorician inebriated by the exhuberance of his own verbosity!!!

Smartass: HUH?
by Tomcat07 January 9, 2006
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Destroying your own reputation completely and irreversibly in a few quick steps. Usually refers to someone's great reputation that was built over a very long time and which was utterly destroyed in a very short time by their own unexpectedly ridiculous actions, like the previously-respected famous author Nicholas Nassim Taleb did to his own reputation after many consecutive aggressive rants on social media that many saw as complete mental break-downs and as attacks to his own ideas, books, friends, colleagues and followers. This is one of the quickest known "from Hero to Zero" in the modern world.
He was building his reputation for 20 years but he Taleb'ed his own reputation in 20 minutes
by Ultra-Fragile May 29, 2021
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sowing his oats

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When a person engages in activities (sex, drugs or untypical behavior) frequently as if to try new things to gain experience. With sex it would be without an attachment (serious relationship) with the partners. Tends to mean prior to when a person settles down to a more conventional or platonic lifestyle.
Wayne was out "sowing his oats" all weekend at the boardwalk. Hopefully he will get it out of his system sooner than later.
by Write Mateo! January 24, 2011
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not rolling his own

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The present participle is used to refer to the activity of masturbation in a larger completed sentence. Compare the word with the past tense wrang it out in the same passage: except I sure wrang it out a hunderd times thinkin about you.

The source is Brokeback Mountain. Jack did not roll his own. He did not did not jerk off alone. This sentence was omitted in the French translation of the short story.
with women, yeah, but Jesus H., ain't nothin like this. I
"sh*t no," said Jack, who had been riding more than bulls, not rolling his own. "You know that. Old Brokeback got us good and it sure ain't over. We got a work out what the f*ck we're goin a do now."
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blowing his own trumpet

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To boast about oneself, to speak very proudly and positively about oneself. In AmE, "to blow one's own horn"
John is blowing his own trumpet again, he is telling everyone he is the best sales manager of our Company.
by Evuski May 18, 2006
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cook his own pancakes

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Is a phrase used normally when a mother is overly worried about her post-adolescent child(ren). The phrase is spoken by the friends of the child and is a way of calming the mother.
"Where's my son? Is he alright? Is he hurt? Oh my Lord!"
"Don't worry Mrs. S, Jimmy can still cook his own pancakes."
by Fenland July 14, 2005
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