highfalutin
High sounding, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Gu ā NMI ǎ NT á nghu á ng, which is used to describe a person who deliberately appears dignified or dignified, but it is not. It's from Wu Jianren's strange situation witnessed in 20 years in Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Idioms
The eighty fourth chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in the Qing Dynasty: "he hid the beautiful customs he had just embraced and changed his high sounding face."
Idiom usage
Subject predicate type; as subject, object and attribute; with derogatory meaning examples say less and do more practical things.
highfalutin
stand head and shoulders above others - hè lì jī qún
recover for illness without medical help - bù yào ér yù