swollen head
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A canine lineage that impressive is bound to give any pup a slightly swollen head, which threatens to drive a serious wedge between Scooby and the comparatively insignificant Shaggy.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2020
The Rosses wouldn't let their star client watch the show, lest she get a swollen head.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2016
Tenor's Tonsillectomy Singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House leaves many a tenor with a swollen head but Tenor Tito Schipa who lately finished his first season there was left with swollen tonsils.
From Time Magazine Archive
Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among these repeated subjects is a crouched, blobby figure with a monstrously swollen head.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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