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blow your own trumpet
idiom
mainly UK(also mainly USblow your own horn)
to tell people about your achievements, especially in a way that makes you appear too proud of yourself:
I hate to blow my own trumpet, but I think I did pretty well there.
It isn't considered very British to blow your own trumpet.
I dislike interviewers who can't resist blowing their own horn.
He's modest, works very hard and doesn't blow his own horn much.
Synonym
toot your own horn
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Boasting
bighead
blow
blowhard
boast
boastful
boastfully
brag
braggadocio
braggadocious
braggart
bragging rights
chest-thumping
crow
crow about something
flex
humblebrag
outbrag
swaggerer
toot
toot your own hornidiom
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