| 词组 | an ego trip |
| 释义 | Idiom an ego trip something that you do in order to make yourself feel important.Running the university Film Society is a big ego trip for her. (redirected from an ego trip) ego tripA display of superiority and self-centeredness. Are you on an ego trip? I'm not one of your lowly interns, so you can get your own coffee! The boss must have been on a real ego trip when he decided to name the building after himself. ego tripBehavior or activities undertaken mainly out of vanity or for self-gratification. For example, She's really on an ego trip, trying out for the lead. [1960s] ego trip n. a public expression of one’s feelings of importance or superiority. The guy is on another ego trip. Pay no attention. ego tripA display of self-importance, a vehicle for self-satisfaction: for example, “These annual art shows of hers are simply an ego trip; she has no talent whatsoever.” This pejorative term dates from the second half of the 1900s. It brands someone as an egotist, which Ambrose Bierce defined as “A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me” (The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911). |
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