amour propre

amour propre

Self-worth. If you're too critical of Sophie, I worry that you'll damage her amour propre.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • pillow-biter
  • (something) blows
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • (as) gay as a three-dollar bill
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • a copy
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • #dead
References in periodicals archive
Although Amour Propre is 2lb better off, ground conditions are likely to be different and Bastiman reports Borderlescott to have thrived for his first run of the season.
Waffle reduced Amour Propre's lead to a neck at the post, but nothing could prevent him obliging at 10-1.
Amour Propre was a very hard puller, but Charlotte was able to settle him and she has very good hands.
YORK: 2.05 Amour Propre, 2.40 Tactician, 3.15 Green Destiny, 3.55 Quite Sparky, 4.25 Discression, 5.00 Last Bid, 5.35 River Falcon.
An excellent seven-race card at Haydock also features the Sports360.co.uk Achilles Stakes with Henry Candy's Amour Propre among the 12 entries.
My heart says Borderlescott for the 3.40 at Newmarket but my head says AMOUR PROPRE in a Group Three dash usually won by a fancied contender.
Henry Candy was notably glowing about Amour Propre, who made light of his trainer's concerns over the ground in the Willmott Dixon Cornwallis Stakes.
Candy can also strike with Amour Propre, who has accounted for a couple of decent sorts on his last two starts and is taken to complete a hat-trick in the Christmas Parties at Beverley Racecourse Novice Stakes.
Amour Propre has accounted for a couple of decent sorts on his last two starts and is taken to complete a hat-trick in the Christmas Parties at Beverley Racecourse Novice Stakes.
There being no downstream supply base for high-tech manufacturing in Indonesia (and lowly things like widgets and circuit boards apparently not appealing to Habibie's sense of national amour propre), BPIS-sponsored industries were almost entirely import-driven.
Been there, done it Dane O'Neill (Amour Propre 2008) and Jamie Spencer (Our Jonathan 2009) are the other jockeys riding to have won this.
Il y a bien mille manieres de rappeler a l'ordre tous ceux qui faillent a leurs obligations, surtout pas au detriment des concitoyens, profondement affectes dans leur amour propre. Ni la Constitution qui stipule la justice spatiale et sociale, ni les droits humains qui promulguent la preservation de la dignite ne permettent de tels derapages abusifs.
Irish hopes of glory in Haydock's Betfred Sprint Cup will rest on Eddie Lynam's Sole Power, winner of the Group 1 'Nunthorpe' last year and runner-up to Amour Propre at the Curragh last Sunday, and the Charles O'Brien-trained Bewitched.
Candy is a shrewd operator with his sprinters, with the likes of Airwave, Kyllachy, Amour Propre and Markab keeping him in the limelight.
Candy has made his name down the years with wellknown sprinters such as Airwave, Kyllachy, Amour Propre and Markab.