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pat oneself on the back
vs
rodomontade
pat oneself on the back
rodomontade
adj
Pretentiously boastful.
noun
Vain boasting; a rant; pretentious behaviour.
How often have the words
pat oneself on the back
and
rodomontade
occurred in a corpus of books?
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