plume

adorn (oneself) with borrowed plumes

To make a showy display of something that is not truly one's own. I know you lied to me earlier about your involvement in this fair, so quit adorning yourself with borrowed plumes and tell me what you actually contributed.
See also: adorn, borrow, plume

borrowed plumes

A showy display that is not truly one's own. I know you lied to me earlier, so quit adorning yourself with borrowed plumes and tell me what you really contributed to this event.
See also: borrow, plume

plume (oneself) on (something)

To pride oneself on something in a vain, boastful, or showy manner. He plumes himself on his business acumen, constantly talking about how many big sales he's pulled in and how much money he earns. But so much as challenge one of their worldviews with facts, and the aloof nonchalance these teenagers plume themselves on will crumple like tissue paper.
See also: on, plume
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

plume oneself

Congratulate oneself, boast, as in He plumed himself on his victory. This idiom transfers the bird's habit of dressing its feathers to human self-satisfaction. [First half of 1600s]
See also: plume
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

borrowed plumes

a pretentious display not rightly your own.
This phrase refers to the fable of the jay which dressed itself in the peacock's feathers.
See also: borrow, plume
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • adorn
  • adorn (oneself) with borrowed plumes
  • borrow
  • borrowed plumes
  • close the door to (something)
  • parade in front of
  • parade in front of (someone or something)
  • cut a (wide) swath, to
  • (from) top to toe
  • parade by
References in periodicals archive
'Previous studies of Karoo picrites in Africa and Antarctica by us and by other groups have suggested the generation of magmas in the upper mantle, but our new results indicate plume sources were also involved', adds Jussi Heinonen, an Academy of Finland fellow at the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki.
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI: First direct evidence for a mantle plume origin of Jurassic flood basalts in southern Africa
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Coordinated observations of Jupiter in early 2017 by six ground-based telescopes and Hubble allowed astronomers to study the evolution of bright plumes and connect them with cloud movements deep in the planet.
Storms On Jupiter Disturbing the Colorful Belts
"Or it could be a rising plume from interaction between magma and seawater because Raikoke is a small island and flows likely entered the water."
NASA astronauts capture amazing photo of Raikoke volcano erupting through clouds; A vast plume of ash and volcanic gases is seen rising from the Raikoke Volcano's 700-metre-wide crater
de la Cruz, "The impact of the Amazon-Orinoco River plume on enthalpy flux and air-sea interaction within Caribbean Sea tropical cyclones," in the March issue of Monthly Weather Review.
IMPACT OF THE AMAZON-ORINOCO RIVER PLUME ON CARIBBEAN SEA TROPICAL CYCLONES
Plume is the pioneer of Adaptive WiFi(TM), the world's first self-optimising Wi-Fi delivering reliable and consistent Internet experience to every corner of the home, and the original designer and inventor of Wi-Fi Pods and SuperPods.
Plume releases AI-driven security product
Because of the potential impact surgical plume has on Perioperative Nurses, a survey was compiled with the objective of exploring Perioperative Nurses College (PNC) members' knowledge and understanding of surgical smoke plume and what they saw happening in the workplace.
Surgical Plume Survey 2018
Showroom provided the amethyst ostrich plumes: featherplace.com.
LIGHT AS A FEATHER
Temperature anomaly ([DELTA]T) of the plume relative to ambient seawater was calculated using the formula proposed by Baker and Lupton [2], which is suitable for the Pacific, and the potential density and potential temperature data required for the formula were also obtained using the CTD.
Arsenic and Antimony in Hydrothermal Plumes from the Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea
The investment will be used to accelerate the deployment and integration of Adaptive WiFi[TM] in Internet Service Provider (ISP) networks and third party hardware, introduction of new products, and for Plume's expansion in Silicon Valley and Europe.
Comcast--Plume Secures $37.5 Million Funding Led by Comcast to Accelerate Adaptive WiFi[TM] Deployments --6/6/2017
Many macroscopic properties as well as internal geometry and rate of injection have already been characterized experimentally for Spray G, including evidence of plume interaction and collapse [3,6,7,10].
A Comparison of Experimental and Modeled Velocity in Gasoline Direct-Injection Sprays with Plume Interaction and Collapse
In this paper, a method fully considering the combustion state influence based on the CFD software FLUENT is put forward, which is applied to exhaust plume flow field calculation of multinozzle engine.
Three-Dimensional Numerical Analysis of LOX/Kerosene Engine Exhaust Plume Flow Field Characteristics
Caption: Figure 10: Comparison of background radiance estimation methods, for four different pixels through the plume. The red curves stand for the on-plume radiances; the dashed green ones are the real background radiances.
Corrigendum to "Background Radiance Estimation for Gas Plume Quantification for Airborne Hyperspectral Thermal Imaging"
The groundwater plume is on the boundary of Woods Cross City and Bountiful City and known as the Five Points PCE Plume Superfund Site.
Utah DEQ, EPA issue decision on five points PCE plume site
Exhaust Plume Analyzer is a software application used to quantify the risk of experiencing severe turbulence or aircraft upset when an aircraft is flying in the vicinity of an exhaust plume.
Severe turbulence quantifier: The Mitre Corp