up your own ass
- idiom
- Offensive
:
engreído
- Try not to be up your own ass during meetings—it puts people off.
Examples
-
The manager's always up her own ass and never acknowledges the team's efforts.
-
He is always up his own ass about his achievements.
-
He is so up his own ass that he can't see anyone else's point of view.
-
Stop being so up your own ass!
-
He is so up his own ass that he thinks his ideas are the only ones that matter.
-
The politician is always up her own ass, ignoring the concerns of her constituents.
-
It's frustrating to work with someone who is constantly up their own ass and dismisses other opinions.
Synonyms
22
7.5
A person who thinks they are better than other people
9
7.0
Being only interested in your own needs and feelings
A person who is very proud and only thinks about themselves
A person who thinks they are much more important than they are
Thinking you are better than other people
Thinks she is much better than other people
Antonyms
How Self-Absorbed
- Offensive
6
8.6
- Offensive
- Informal
13
5.8
- US
56
3.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a vulgar, metaphorical expression whose literal parts ('your own' + 'ass') point to self-directedness, but the specific meaning 'extremely self‑absorbed/arrogant' is not directly predictable from the bodily image alone. A B1 learner who knows the words might guess a self-related idea but would likely not arrive at the conventional pragmatic sense without prior exposure, so the expression is partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
The idiom up your own ass may come from the silly image of someone with their head pushed so far up their own ass that they cannot see or hear other people. That's why the phrase means 'extremely self-absorbed' or 'so full of yourself'.