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make an exhibition of oneself
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Idioms and Phrases
Show off or otherwise embarrass oneself in public, as in When Mike has too much to drink he's apt to make an exhibition of himself . The first recorded use of this term was in Charles Dickens's A Child's History of England (1853).Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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