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full of oneself

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  1. Conceited, self-centered, as in Ever since she won the prize Mary's been so full of herself that no one wants to talk to her. This expression uses full of in the sense of “engrossed with” or “absorbed with,” a usage dating from about 1600.

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These two epithets do not agree: one is not so very unhappy, when one is full of oneself.

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