💢#Proud /praʊd/ BrE AmE #adjective
#Metaphor
✨Being too proud, and thinking that you are better than other people, is like being high up. Being humble is like being low down.
🔺I can’t stand that superior attitude of his!
🔺They look down on everyone who isn’t as rich as they are.
🔺She’s got very uppity since she was promoted.
🔺Despite his great wealth, he’s not at all stuck-up.
🔺She treated other people with lofty disdain.
🔺They look down their noses at people like us.
🔺I don’t know why you’re being so high and mighty all of a sudden.
🔻He rose from lowly origins.
🔻His family snubbed her because she was low-born.
🔻We were taught to look up to people from a higher class.
🔻The way you crawl to him makes me sick.
🔻I’m not going to abase myself before anyone.
🔻They regarded ordinary working people as their social inferiors.
#Phrases
@PMPerfect1
#Metaphor
✨Being too proud, and thinking that you are better than other people, is like being high up. Being humble is like being low down.
🔺I can’t stand that superior attitude of his!
🔺They look down on everyone who isn’t as rich as they are.
🔺She’s got very uppity since she was promoted.
🔺Despite his great wealth, he’s not at all stuck-up.
🔺She treated other people with lofty disdain.
🔺They look down their noses at people like us.
🔺I don’t know why you’re being so high and mighty all of a sudden.
🔻He rose from lowly origins.
🔻His family snubbed her because she was low-born.
🔻We were taught to look up to people from a higher class.
🔻The way you crawl to him makes me sick.
🔻I’m not going to abase myself before anyone.
🔻They regarded ordinary working people as their social inferiors.
#Phrases
@PMPerfect1