with attitude

with attitude

Especially intense, impressive, or demanding of attention. She has now built an entire media empire on being a nanny with attitude, one who won't tolerate the bad behavior of children or parents alike. It's not quite rock climbing—more like hiking with attitude.
See also: attitude
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

with attitude

If you describe a thing as something or someone with attitude, you mean that they are more impressive or confident than a normal example of that thing. This is going to be sailing with attitude. Patti Smith and Janis Joplin were women with attitude and talent.
See also: attitude
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
See also:
  • die of boredom
  • die of curiosity
  • not have a bar of (something)
  • I can live with that
  • basinful
  • have had a basinful
  • have had a basinful (of something)
  • not stand still for (something)
  • not hold still for (something)
  • That does it!
References in periodicals archive
The report on attitude and heading reference systems market provides in-depth analysis of parent market trends, macro-economic indicators and governing factors along with attitude and heading reference systems market as per segments.
GCPI, (1981), relationship of Academic Achievement with attitude towards teaching among teacher -trainees.
Results indicate that Interaction with Transwomen is positively correlated with Attitude toward Transwomen.
The authors believe that the opinion concept may have shared belief and evaluation attributes with attitude concept.
(1998) The problem with attitude. Melbourne: Communication Research Institute.
In relation to sub-factors, "belief in chance" and "meaninglessness of effort" also showed a negative relationship with attitude toward teaching.
Given the importance of attitude toward attending, the next step was the examination of variables that correlated significantly (p value less than .01) with attitude. The most highly correlated variable was intention to attend (correlation of .71), followed by norm (correlation of .67), and by attitude toward having attended last spring's workshop (correlation of .60).
Chubon (1992) cited one problem in studies submitted for publication dealing with attitude toward disability as absence of reporting of validity and reliability.
"Staying Alive with Attitude: Beliefs about aging sway seniors' survival" (SN: 7/27/02, p.
The result of this partial correlation analysis demonstrated that the RWA authoritarian aggression subscale was significantly correlated with attitudes toward torture, r = .22, p < .001.
Yuker and Block (1986) reported that attitudes toward individuals with disabilities are positively correlated with attitudes toward mainstreaming.
Team identification is a phenomenon in sport spectatorship that is probably associated with attitudes toward spectator sports.
First of all, the correlation of academic grades with attitudes and actions related to academic responsibility would provide powerful information for the Lighthouse Partnership.
Prior social contact with people with physical disabilities (Chesler, 1965; Fichten & Amsel, 1986) and social desirability (Feinberg, 1967; Fichten & Amsel, 1986) have also been shown to be positively correlated with attitudes toward persons with physical disabilities.
However, unlike most studies dealing with attitudes toward mathematics, these data were collected from the same students over three points in time and from four schools with different environments.