bask/bathe in reflected glory
to feel successful and admired for something, despite the fact that you did not achieve it yourself but were only connected to it in some way:
The government is bathing in the reflected glory of its victorious military forces.
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Taking pleasure in something
- bask
- bask in sth
- be a glutton for punishment idiom
- be a great one for sth idiom
- be/go into ecstasies over/about sth idiom
- drool
- ecstasy
- glory
- have a ball idiom
- have a field day idiom
- have a rare old time idiom
- hedonic
- hedonism
- lap
- revel
- revel in sth
- ride (on) a wave of sth idiom
- self-indulgent
- slake
- soak
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