highfaluting

“The City Council is displaying some highfaluting ideas in the so-called fieldhouses which it is building on Park Board property,” a Seattle Times column complained back then.

This comes under the general heading of "biometrics," a highfaluting way of saying the phone has the ability to recognize you by physical characteristics.

You've got what the highfaluting society gang at Darley would call a chaperon, but she isn't exactly of the first water, according to the way such things are usually graded.

Lots of girls would have fibbed, and said they'd fainted, or something highfaluting of that nature.

Look here!" he exclaimed, "isn't all this rather—well, highfaluting rot?