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Idiom: Put on Airs
Some people try to put on airs.
Yes, it is ‘airs,’ not ‘ears.’
To put on airs means to pretend to be better than you are.
You try to create a certain aura about you that you usually don’t have.
A poor lady who dresses up in fake designer goods is putting on airs.
She is pretending to be richer than she is.
A man who tries to impress a girl by taking her to an expensive restaurant that he cannot afford is doing it too.
In my own opinion, putting on airs does not have to be a negative thing in all situations.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is simple and easy to read. It’s likely to be understood by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 82.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
