fancy-pants

No one tells me what to do in my own courtroom, and that includes fancy-pants lawyers like you.

Which still strikes us as kind of fancy-pants.

Do you mean to tell me that fancy-pants Immune system of yours doesn't even screen for human pathogens?"

Every single one of these fancy-pants affairs are the commercial bankers or the investment bankers."

And anyway, we're doing all right out here; we don't need any commitments to a lot of fancy-pants on the other side of the galaxy."

"You're not much of an intelligence officer, either, and neither is Mr. Fancy-pants here.

We spend months, years, working to catch them and the next thing you know some wing-tipped fancy-pants lawyer has them out on a technicality.

Now a row of television cameras faced the makeshift podium; fancy-pants correspondents were adjusting their earpieces.

"Old Fancy-pants back there.

"No fancy-pants Northerner is gonna stroll in here and just take the place over," a stocky younger man growled.

That's real fancy-pants.

Had never browbeat that fancy-pants Captain Jean-Luc Picard into fighting back and ... "What's wrong with your neck?"

Classic games for classic machines, not like today's fancy-pants consoles, with their fast processors and 3-D graphics and surround sound, which will never ever ever be as good.

He's worried about fancy-pants Kerry pushing his overblown heroics in Vietnam while Junior was occasionally showing up to fly jets defending Texas against Oklahoma.

He summarized the architectural panorama as "neo-Nursing Home, Downtown Parking Garage, Middle-American Convention Center, and Fancy-Pants Brutalism."

You're going to have to make up your own mind on this: it was essentially raw, but with their fancy-pants 650 C oven, I wonder if it's beyond the wit of man to judge it perfectly every time.

Presented in the Pajama Men's trademark style of blink-of-an-eye character switches and plot twists, underscored with unflinching joke telling, In the Middle of No One is a bizarre flight of fancy-pants.

PATTI HAGAN looks very vulnerable as she stands outside her circa-1870 brownstone in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, clutching leaflets protesting the gleaming arena complex that some fancy-pants developer envisions nearby.

A lot of people who are understandably sick of the pretensions and gimmicks purveyed by fancy-pants directors may welcome this, but I only hope that the beacon of risk, youth and imagination doesn't get extinguished in the process.

In 1987, a lunch-bucket Flyers squad, coached by the master manipulator and ice-cube-masticator Mike Keenan, took the fancy-pants Edmonton Oilers, of Messrs. Gretzky, Messier et al, to a seventh game in the Final.

Given the recent glut of big-name burger openings, it's surprising to find that the city's best new hamburger isn't the handiwork of some fancy-pants chef and that the place serving it isn't as much a restaurant as a bar.

This therapist's wimpy impression of his son's voice was clearly one of those sly, masked cruelties that fancy-pants shrinks believe are undetectable because their patients always let them pass, aware that a vengeful, cornered therapist can make life confusing and very expensive.

You were trying to prevent the trouble you foresaw-and I hadn't spotted it, except with that fancy-pants from theRose -and I realized it was some of my engineering modifications, for the passengers, which gave Paison access to the systems, made his takeover possible.