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单词 to top the officer
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to top the officer
c. Originally Nautical. to top the officer: to treat a person as one's inferior; to behave in a superior manner towards someone. Usually with over, introducing a prepositional phrase indicating the person treated in this way. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > pretend to superiority [verb (intransitive)]
to make it goodlyc1325
usurpc1400
to take state upon one1597
to come over ——1600
to gentilize it1607
to state it1625
to give oneself airs1701
to put on airs1715
to mount (also ride) the high horse1782
to put on (the) dog1865
to get (also have) notions1866
to put on side1870
to have a roll on1881
to put (or pile) on lugs1889
side1890
to put on the Ritz1921
1767 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 10 Sept. He also hopes the mates will not be allowed to top the officers over the mids so far as to wear rose buttons and lappels, which are a very handsome part of the Lieutenants uniform.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. xiv. 181 I've been hail-fellow well met with the ship's company so long, that I can't top the officer over them.
1873 Graphic 4 Jan. 5/2 As for his sister, she is a good sort of girl in the main, and; as it pleases her to ‘top the officer’ over her distinguished brother, why, he allows her the privilege.
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