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Phrase: Like the sound of your own voice
You may be unfortunate enough to know someone who is a pompous, self-centred ass.
If you do, I’m sorry about that, but you may have occasion to say they like the sound of their own voice.
If you do, it means that person who is a pompous, self-centred ass enjoys hearing themselves speak.
They speak too much and, if they are male, may mansplain to women without realizing they are doing it.
This is on the extreme end of the scale, of course.
We often say a person likes the sound of their own voice simply when they have a habit of talking too much.
They don’t have to be a pompous, self-centred ass.
They just have to be an ass.
Perhaps during a night out, a friend has one too many wobbly pops and begins talking and talking and talking.
They make it so no one else can get a word in edgewise.
Most definitely, that situation will upset everyone until someone tells him (it’s most often a ‘him’) that he may like the sound of his own voice, but everyone else is rather tired of it, so would he please shut up for five minutes?
It’s important to realize there is no hatred there.
He becomes a temporary self-centred ass when he drinks.
Tomorrow he’ll be a nice guy again, albeit with a hangover, but no one will accuse him of liking the sound of his own voice.
Naturally, there are over-talkative women too, but when it comes to the trifecta of being pompous, self-centred and an ass who likes the sound of his own voice, from my experience, it’s mostly men.
I hope I am not one of them.
Although one afternoon, my wife rubbed the back of my head, and when I asked her what she was doing, she said she was looking for an off switch.
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