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swelled head

noun as in inflated self-opinion

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“Well, luckily I’m too old to get a swelled head,” Mitchell joked in her acceptance speech.

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Astronauts also tend to have swelled heads, squashed eyeballs, shriveled legs and bones that become more brittle.

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Or so he told Tommy, who punched him in the arm and told him he had a swelled head.

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Take the warnings his mother finds on the Internet and forwards to Lam and his brothers, cautioning them against the dangers of a swelled head.

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You can get a swelled head and think you know so much about the past, you know about the present, that you can predict the future.

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