make an exhibition of yourself
disapprovingDefinition
› to do something stupid in public: I hope I didn't make an exhibition of myself last night.Humiliating and degrading
(Definition of make an exhibition of yourself from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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make a splash idiom
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make a virtue (out) of sth idiom
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make a world of difference idiom
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make a/your mark (on sth) idiom
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make an ass of yourself idiom
- make an exhibition of yourself idiom
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make an honest living idiom
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make an honest woman (out) of sb idiom
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make an impression on sb idiom
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make as if to do sth idiom
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make capital out of sth idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- abase verb
- be under a cloud idiom
- bring/take sb down a peg (or two) idiom
- bruise sb's ego idiom
- cut sb down to size idiom
- deflate verb (WEAKEN)
- discredit noun
- discredit verb
- disgrace noun
- disgrace verb
- dishonour noun
- humiliated adjective
- humiliating adjective
- ignoble adjective
- ignominious adjective
- ignominy noun
- ruin noun
- shameful adjective
- shoddy adjective (NOT RESPECTFUL)
- stoop to sth phrasal verb
Topic:
Humiliating and degrading
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