high-flown
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Tanımlar (İngilizce)
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sıfat
pretentiously eloquent; highly figurative
“Red River Settlement is, to use a high-flown expression, an oasis in the desert, and may be likened to a spot upon the moon or a solitary ship upon the ocean. In plain English, it is an isolated settlement on the borders of one of the vast prairies of North America.”
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sıfat
lofty, extravagant, refined
“It seems to me he makes troubles, by expecting every one else to be as quixotic as himself. He is not likely to find high-flown notions among ordinary business men!”
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