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Idiom: Toot/blow your own horn
This week, I am trying to stay on the theme of Brexit.
I will keep to this theme again today with toot your own horn.
To blow your own horn means to boastfully talk about how wonderful your achievements are.
I saw Nigel Farage’s performance at the European Parliament, and he did seem to be very happy with his accomplishment of winning the Brexit vote.
He did appear to be quite happily tooting his own horn or, in other words, talking boastfully, just a little, of course, about his achievement.
I suppose when we win, we are happy, so we want to blow our own horn, just quietly of course.
No one wants to be obnoxious, right?
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