to get high on one's own supply
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9.9
- idiom
- Informal
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- Many entrepreneurs mistakenly get high on their own supply by overestimating the market demand for their ideas.
Examples
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It's easy for entrepreneurs to get high on their own supply and ignore market realities.
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As a writer, try not to get high on your own supply and stay open to feedback.
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The critic warned the company not to get high on its own supply after a string of successes.
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Don't get high on your own supply!
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He tends to get high on his own supply when he thinks his ideas are perfect.
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He became so confident in his product that he started to get high on his own supply, ignoring the advice of his mentors.
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After achieving initial success, she began to get high on her own supply, believing she could do no wrong with her business decisions.
Synonyms
To believe your own praise so much that you make bad choices
Acting in a way that harms you because you trust your own wrong ideas
To think you are better than other people
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
get + high + on + one's + own + supply
The literal parts ('get' + 'high' + 'on one's own supply') yield a clear image of becoming intoxicated from using your own stock, so a learner who knows the words can partially reconstruct a related idea. However, the usual figurative sense — becoming overconfident or deluded by one’s own products/ideas — is a metaphorical extension tied to cultural/drug-related usage and is not fully predictable without prior exposure, so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Get high on one's own supply comes from drug sellers: imagine a dealer who uses the drugs they sell, literally getting high on their own supply. That's why it now means 'become too pleased with yourself or ignore real problems with your own work or product'.