barber

Related to barber: Samuel Barber, Barbour

(as) conceited as a barber's cat

Very narcissistic or vain. Don't invite Joe to lunch unless you want to hear him brag about all the important things he's doing in his new job. He's just as conceited as a barber's cat lately.
See also: cat, conceited
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*conceited as a barber's cat

Rur. very conceited; vain. (*Also: as ~.) Ever since he won that award, he's been as conceited as a barber's cat.
See also: cat, conceited
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (as) conceited as a barber's cat
  • conceited
  • conceited as a barber's cat
  • cock of the walk
  • cocky
  • cocky as the king of spades
  • (as) cocky as the king of spades
  • biggity
  • be wasting (one's) breath
  • be wasting your breath
References in periodicals archive
Swindler Malcolm Barber - had been a trusted cricket official
Syed Mohammad Ali, a resident of Sector I-10/1 said "I know the impact of use of unsterilized equipment at barber shops but why the local administration was reluctant to take action against those who were spreading diseases like hepatitis B and C."
White Plains, NY, February 12, 2016 --(PR.com)-- Gentleman's Barber Spa is offering the Royal Shave all week until Valentine's Day!
"Men are looking after themselves a lot more and have finally realized that the barber is the best person to cut their hair, rather than a hairdresser.
Brandon Barber wants to hold onto his life insurance policy for his children.
WHEN it opened just over 75 years ago, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts was described by The Times as being the "purest example" of the work of a key British architect.
MISS Tracy Barber and Mr Daniel Pilkington were married at St David's Church, Holmbridge.
Alison Scatterwood, barbering lecturer from East Durham College in Peterlee, County Durham, is competing against 14 other candidates for the North East Best Wet Shaving Barber title.
"Whoever controls the licensing can set any rules they want, and you're controlled by them," said licensed barber Clayton Cooper.
CLINTON - Alexander Puleo has opened Alexander's Family Barber Shop at 343 Main St.
As the political endgame was being played out which would bring the National Socialists to power in Germany little more than a month later, a more benign series of negotiations between the University of Birmingham and Lady Hattie Barber, widow of a wealthy property developer, culminated in a formal offer to endow a new centre for the arts.
In an excellent Sports Illustrated profile (via Deadspin) of retired New York Giants running back Tiki Barber, who is looking to return to the NFL, we learn what happened after Barber, then a Today Show correspondent, left his pregnant wife, spent two nights sleeping at Rockefeller Center, and then shacked up with his now-girlfriend Traci Johnson, the 23-year-old NBC intern he had apparently been seeing.
At the controls was Richard Barber, the Dorset farmer whose livery yard has been an influence on the sport for 25 years by making others up their game.
Authorities identified the victim as Kevin Michael Barber, 42.
The Samuel Barber centenary was bound to encourage a profusion of new publications about the composer, supplementing Barbara Heyman's authoritative Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), which will soon appear in a new edition.