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We found 3 dictionaries that define the word too big for one's boots:

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  1. too big for one's boots: Merriam-Webster
  2. too big for one's boots, too big for one's boots: Collins English Dictionary
  3. too big for one's boots: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (too big for one's boots)

adjective:  (idiomatic) Far less important or capable than one thinks or claims oneself to be.


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