make an exhibition of oneself

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Show off or otherwise embarrass oneself in public, as in When Mike has too much to drink he's apt to make an exhibition of himself . The first recorded use of this term was in Charles Dickens's A Child's History of England (1853).

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April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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