IMPORTANT IS LARGE SIZE (thus to seem more important, seem larger)
- 1 She's got an inflated ego/sense of herself
- 2 He's a stuffed shirt
- 3 She was puffed up with pride
- 4 He was becoming quite grandiose when I left.
- 5 She's got a big/swollen head
Kovesces, 1986; Alan Schwartz