Idiom
stuffed shirt
Meaning
One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is either officious or punctilious in a position of authority.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is such a stuffed shirt at work.”
“Nobody invited the manager to the party because he is a total stuffed shirt who ruins the fun.”
“The board of directors was filled with stuffed shirts who cared more about rigid protocol than the actual progress of the company.”
Examples
simple
“He is such a stuffed shirt at work.”
contextual
“Nobody invited the manager to the party because he is a total stuffed shirt who ruins the fun.”
complex
“The board of directors was filled with stuffed shirts who cared more about rigid protocol than the actual progress of the company.”
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