chest-beating
Aggressive public bragging
Chest-beating is loud, aggressive self-promotion or displays of dominance—from the gesture gorillas use to assert themselves.
The term usually carries a note of skepticism about whether the display is warranted: All his chest-beating about the deal didn't impress anyone.
Also appears as the verb chest-beat and the adjective chest-beating: chest-beating nationalism.
Excessive self-praise
- swaggerConfident, boastful manner
- blusterLoud, empty boasting
- grandstandingPerforming to impress onlookers
- showboatingOstentatious self-display
bravado · puffery · bombast · posturing · arrogance · hubris · egotism · self-importance
Largest great ape
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- alphaFirst Greek letter
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- territorialDefensive about owned space
aggression · silverback · pounding · thumping · display · ritual · assertion · challenge
bragging
Excessive self-praise
- swaggerConfident, boastful manner
- blusterLoud, empty boasting
- grandstandingPerforming to impress onlookers
showboating · bravado · puffery · bombast · posturing · arrogance · hubris · egotism · self-importance · conceit
gorilla
Largest great ape
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- alphaFirst Greek letter
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
territorial · aggression · silverback · pounding · thumping · display · ritual · assertion · challenge · confrontation
mourning
Period following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- wailingProlonged mournful crying
sorrow · keening · ululation · rending · despair · funeral · bereavement
- theatricstheatrics, dramatics, melodrama, histrionics, theatricality
- lad culturelad culture, boozing, pub crawl, stag do, stag party
chest-beatinghumility
Freedom from arrogance
modesty · self-deprecation · self-effacement · understatement · meekness
chest-beatingsubmission
Yielding to another's will
deference · capitulation · appeasement · kowtowing · yielding
chest-beatingunderstatement
Intentional diminishment for effect
restraint · quietude · reticence · reserve · taciturnity
chest, beating, chests, chested, beat, beats, beaten, beater, beaters