Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - stuffed shirt
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Stuffed shirt
stuffed shirt
noun Date: 1904 a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
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2.
(stuffed shirts) If you describe someone, especially someone with an important position, as a stuffed shirt, you mean that they are extremely formal and old-fashioned. (INFORMAL) In a pinstriped suit he instantly looked like a stuffed shirt. N-COUNT c darkgreen]disapproval ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
3.
~ n someone who behaves in a very formal way and thinks that they are important ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
4.
{n. phr.} A pretentious bore; a pompous, empty person. * /I think that Howard is a terrible stuffed shirt with no sense of humor./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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