give oneself airs
put on airs

"Zalupatsia" means "Playing the great man, giving oneself airs"; in A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsin, one of the inmates protests against something ("This is not sovietic!")

She's not one to put on airs, especially linguistic ones.

It's a lot easier to be how we are now than it is to put on airs.

"What, and give her the chance to put on airs?"

When you come across one of these, she naturally puts on airs.

I would make what was coming no better by putting on airs and being resented.

Then there were those noble fellows who put on airs.

I mean, she didn't put on airs, like some people.

Just because Duncan was king didn't give him the right to put on airs.

He has not allowed himself to become a big-leaguer and put on airs.

"She's not the type of kid who has to put on airs.

"And then they all call your self-respect putting on airs."

Just don't put on airs because you used to carry a rifle.

"You mean that now, as we're talking here, I'm putting on airs?"

I guess it's hard to put on airs in front of men with whom you spent four years showering.

There is no need to put on airs or pretense."

Some of the other traders think he's putting on airs."

"I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs.

"I was the first to see him," said the monk, putting on airs.

They seldom put on airs, and the offer of a drink is a sure way to their hearts.

He'd no patience with women putting on airs and moaning about the most natural thing in the world.

Nor did he put on airs, in conversation or in dress.

I don't mean he put on airs or anything, but .

She wasn't a lady who just put on airs.

She had every right to put on airs!

Mayor Call suspects the company of putting on airs.