Sentence examples for my britches from inspiring English sources

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"Maybe for a minute I got too big for my britches," she sings, in "Dime Store Cowgirl".

"Got too big for my britches," she sings on the second track, Dimestore Cowgirl, although she can't point to any specific instances of big-headedness.

"I'd say I got too big for my britches, but as everybody knows I don't wear britches" explains a caption on YouTube.

"I was getting too big for my britches," he said, although a former assistant organist, Sean Jackson, said he did not notice such resentment.

"This was just after 'Beauty Queen' was on Broadway, and I felt like I was getting a little too big for my britches.

"Maybe for a minute I got too big for my britches," she sings, in "Dime Store Cowgirl". "I'm still the girl from Golden, had to get away so I could grow.

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"You're too big for your britches," my father would say when my nine-year-old voice was too loud at the dinner table.

Nowadays, anytime we adult kids appear to "get too big for our britches", my mother threatens to throw us over her knee.

There's the professional competence, but also the inner fear, 'Oh my God, are these britches too big for me?' His heritage is one of focus, of Zen and martial arts".

In fact, I'm sad to say, I know you are the "Year of the Selfie", but I think during my reign, this action has grown too big for its britches.

But this confiding-gayness-in-secret thing grew tiresome, so my parents said, basically, "Why don't we hold onto our britches and put it all out on the table?

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