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the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener
the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it
How To Use name-dropping In A Sentence
- It was also the ancient world equivalent of name-dropping designed to differentiate him from the rest of the philosopher herd affected by divine radiation.
- The name-dropping in the last two paragraphs isn't so important.
- Expect observational riffs and a little name-dropping. Times, Sunday Times
- She is all for name-dropping but, despite more than 50 years in the industry and her unmistakably diva-ish carriage, she has nothing bad to say about anyone.
- But please, don't stop name-dropping your glamorous existence in the sweaty cosmopolis on my account.
- Yes, but they have their good qualities, such as free advertising and name-dropping.
- The search for influences quickly degenerates into meaningless name-dropping.
- Logo apes Bravo's Housewives bottom-feeders with the all-male The A-List: New York, where bitchy name-dropping narcissism is magnified by a desperate desire to play to the camera. Matt's TV Week in Review
- The book is also full of name-dropping (notably of rather unnotable people) and worst of all - she tries to have it both ways - revelling in scandalous anecdotes yet claiming she remained ‘above it all’.
- The assistant carried on talking to his mate, name-dropping all the famous riders he knew.
