Following their lead, I swaggered off to college (where I knew no one) without looking back; then to New York City (where I knew no one) and San Francisco (ditto), refining my adult self with each jump.
I swaggered off like a real tough guy and starting retelling the story to anyone who'd listen.
In a pattern that made them millions, Stratton's finest would bank the profits and swagger off, while the investors would end up shouldering losses when reality caught up with the shares and their prices collapsed.
Fans often ask each other, "Imagine how great the Pakistan cricket team could be if they just concentrated on playing the game?" Take Shoaib Akhtar, often called the fastest bowler in the world, who seems to prefer to swagger off the field than perform on it.
Someone cut the strobe light, and he swaggered off the stage.
"Young money to the death of me," she says before swaggering off stage, concluding her curious speech.
When the sweaty young art school blues rockers swaggered off the stage after their first ever gig, they were already convinced they were destined for stardom.
He copped a plea, ratted out a dozen no-neck pals and swaggered off to prison, leaving South Beach temporarily without a pied piper.
"Japanese soldiers would fish in our pond, swaggering off with the biggest carp without paying a single penny," Xu recalled, in a memoir he wrote years later.
As the Japanese television cameras rolled, the break-dancers and rap artists, the rave kids and a drag queen in a glittering pink dress swaggered off a humid street in the Flatiron district and into the wall-thumping interior of the Cheetah Club.
