posture as (someone or something)
posture as (someone or something)
To present or portray oneself falsely as a different person or type of person. Someone posturing as a security guard managed to sneak in and steal a bunch of company secrets. You only studied psychology for a single semester, so stop posturing as some sort of expert on the topic!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
posture as someone or something
to pretend to be someone or a particular type of person. Why is the secretary posturing as the manager and giving out assignments? Carla entered the ballroom, posturing as a grand duchess of somewhere or another.
See also: posture
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- pose as
- pose as (someone or something)
- hanger-on
- pond
- a big fish in a small pond
- a big frog in a small pond
- big fish in a small pond
- big frog in a small pond
- frog in a small pond
- change off