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making yourself taller 

No one would dare kill themselves on such a nice spring day! You're just making yourself taller!

Making an ass out of yourself 

Used in a sentence typically constructed as "You're making an ass out of yourself". It means that the target is making himself seem foolish or that he is embarrassing himself.
"Josh is always making an ass out of himself when he's had too much to drink"
"Hey Josh! Stop making an ass out of yourself!"

Making an ass out of yourself 

When someone thinks they're being cool or impressing people, but really they're making themselves sound stupid and making themselves look like a fool.
John made an ass out of himself when he claimed to be a history expert but then got world war I and world war II mixed up.

A drunk guy made an ass out of himself when he was singing lyrics to a non existent song outside the bar

Two examples of making an ass out of yourself.

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026