fluff one's feathers
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fluff one's feathers
verb fluffs one's feathers · fluffing one's feathers · fluffed one's feathers
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To show off.
He knew, though, that the man wasn't thinking of violence. Instead, he was fluffing his feathers for Thessa and doing a little blustering dance.
Similar: cut a wide swath, strut one's stuff, preen, swagger, aura farm, boulevardier, cut it fat, cut round, exhibitionize, figure away, flamboast, flaunt
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