Question

in_the_loop_686 a man who is tiresome, pompous and self-important Compare to: old fuddy-duddy People: descriptions of people (nouns)

Accepted Answer

STUFFED SHIRT Stanley is a bit of a stuffed shirt. He’s arrogant and pompous and he tries to make everyone else think he’s so important.We hate going to those business conventions. It’s just a bunch of stuffed shirts, sitting around trying to impress each other. Describing someone as a stuffed shirt is clearly disparaging, whereas old fuddy-duddy describes someone who is a harmlessly and often humorously old-fashioned person. The expression stuffed shirt is always used to describe a man, never a woman.

Id	in_the_loop_686
Idiom	STUFFED SHIRT
Definition	a man who is tiresome, pompous and self-important
Examples	Stanley is a bit of a stuffed shirt. He’s arrogant and pompous and he tries to make everyone else think he’s so important. We hate going to those business conventions. It’s just a bunch of stuffed shirts, sitting around trying to impress each other.
Cross-Refs	Compare to: old fuddy-duddy
Extra Info	Describing someone as a stuffed shirt is clearly disparaging, whereas old fuddy-duddy describes someone who is a harmlessly and often humorously old-fashioned person. The expression stuffed shirt is always used to describe a man, never a woman.
Category	People: descriptions of people (nouns)

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