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drop names
Refer to important persons as acquaintances in order to impress the listener. For example, Her habit of dropping names made everyone very skeptical about her veracity. [Mid-1900s]
Example Sentences
I don’t mean to drop names — Tom Hanks.
She didn’t have to work hard to drop names, because names seemed to fall from the sky.
And then years ago, not to drop names, but I was at a Neil Young show.
He could drop names as carelessly as country singers drop g’s, and, as the walls of his trophy room attested, he had some big names to drop — though he was devoted to friends from the old neighborhood in Brooklyn he’d meet Saturdays for breakfast at Nate & Al’s.
While Pritchard didn’t drop names or directly criticize McMillan, he did discuss what he is looking for.
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