📚 adj • entry_id 61873
high on one's own supply
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Assigning too much credibility to exaggerated favorable descriptions of one's character, achievements, or prospects; intoxicated by one's own braggadocio; enamored with one's own overvalued public image.
The relentless pursuit of realising his imagination on the big screen has come at a personal cost. […] The director admits he used to play up to the "image of what a film-maker was…
Trump […] seems to have gotten high on his own supply — he actually seems to believe the bizarre conspiracy theories his supporters drum up to excuse his actions.
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