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cock-a-hoop

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ADJECTIVE
  1. exhibiting self-importance
    big talk

How To Use cock-a-hoop In A Sentence

  • Still, the SNP are understandably cock-a-hoop and, again unsurprisingly, SNP bloggers are urging the party on to 2010 and their plans for an independence referendum. The View from the North
  • No wonder the players were all cock-a-hoop in the dressing room after the game.
  • Plenty of Tories are, it seems, cock-a-hoop about the news, still to be confirmed, that General Sir Richard Dannatt is to be elevated to the House of Lords where he will become a Tory defence adviser and, perhaps, a minister in the next Conservative government. John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
  • So Yorks cock-a-hoop again, Durham are 176 for eight. County cricket - live!
  • We're just cock-a-hoop here and Birmingham reaped the dividends on Wednesday, which didn't surprise me.
  • I think there has been a real improvement in then quality of teaching over the last ten years and we are cock-a-hoop.
  • He himself is cock-a-hoop, as you can imagine.
  • Jack's cock-a-hoop to be abroad again, though.
  • After the game he said the players ‘were cock-a-hoop but soon brought back down to earth again by what's going to happen’.
  • Naturally the tech giant is cock-a-hoop at the prediction.
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