tirarsela
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Italian
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[edit]tiràrsela (pronominal, first-person singular present me la tìro, first-person singular past historic me la tirài, past participle tiràto)
- (colloquial) to become haughty or arrogant (with); to lord it over [with con ‘someone’]
- Synonym: darsi delle arie
- 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 22, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
- «Non possiamo permettercelo», risposi. «Ma sei autorizzata a tirartela con il resto della squadra.»
- "We can't afford plaques," I said. "But you get to lord it over the rest of the team."
- (literally, “"We cannot afford it," I replied. "But you are authorized to lord it over the rest of the team."”)