name-dropping nel dizionario PONS

Traduzioni di name-dropping nel dizionario inglese»italiano

name-dropping [ˈneɪm·drɑ:·pɪŋ] SOST

name-dropping

abitudine di vantarsi di conoscere persone importanti per impressionare l'interlocutore

Esempi monolingue (non verificati dalla Redazione di PONS)

inglese

This name-dropping demonstrates how commercialism has created and named new objects and experiences and renamed (or re-created) some that already existed.

en.wikipedia.org

But we've been too busy trading economic gossip and name-dropping famous economists we know to actually read the menu.

www.smh.com.au

They are thrown in as little dollops of culture, mere name-dropping.

www.vanityfair.com

Considering all this, you might expect the man to be a big-talking, name-dropping egotist.

www.thestar.com

It sounds like someone who got through high school by name-dropping the cool kids as his "close personal friends," but that's neither here nor there.

www.avclub.com

Successful syntheses convey their authority not through brash claims, mystifying jargon or literary name-dropping but through a fearsome command of detail, deftly deployed.

www.washingtonpost.com

The movie was green-lighted by name-dropping the cast.

au.blouinartinfo.com

His vanity and penchant for name-dropping are no greater than those of most politicians.

www.ft.com

I avoid rhapsodizing about exotic vacations or name-dropping hotels.

www.thefrisky.com

Is acknowledgement just a case of name-dropping, or is the honouring of benefactors more than a complex deal for dollars?

visual.artshub.com.au