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bragging rights

idiom
Meaning

The prerogative to praise oneself for a skill or accomplishment.


Examples
SIMPLE

Winning this game gives me bragging rights for the whole week.

CONTEXTUAL

After finishing the marathon faster than his friends, he earned the bragging rights he had been chasing for months.

COMPLEX

The victory in the championship provided the team with significant bragging rights, solidifying their reputation as the dominant force in the league.

Anchors to
Related idioms3entries
  1. 01

    all rights reserved

    The copyright holder of a creative work reserves all copyright-related rights, typically including the right to publish the work, to make derivative works of it, to distribute it, to make profit from it, to license a number of these rights to other people, and to forbid these uses by any unauthorized people, thus being entitled to take legal action against infringement.

  2. 02

    bang to rights

    Red-handed, (caught) in the act.

  3. 03

    dead to rights

    With sufficient evidence to establish responsibility definitively.

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