throw one's name around Idiom, Proverb

throw one's name around

Idiom(s): throw one's name around

Theme: BOASTING

to impress people by saying you know a famous or influential person. (Informal.)
• You won't get anywhere around here by throwing the mayor's name around.
• When you get to the meeting, just throw my name around a bit, and people will pay attention to you.

throw one's name around

Idiom(s): throw one's name around

Theme: BOASTING

to affect bodies by adage you apperceive a acclaimed or affecting person. (Informal.)
• You won't get anywhere about actuality by throwing the mayor's name around.
• When you get to the meeting, aloof bandy my name about a bit, and bodies will pay absorption to you.

throw (one's) name around

To acknowledgment accidentally or abominably the name of addition important, powerful, or acclaimed that one knows or with whom one is associated in adjustment to affect others. Look, I don't apperception allowance you out with some of my political contacts abaft bankrupt doors, but you've got to stop throwing my name about like that while you're accomplishing business in public. She spent the accomplished affair throwing some acclaimed dude's name around, as if we were declared to accord a crap. He formed on one big-budget movie, and aback he starts throwing big Hollywood names about like he's one of them.Learn more: around, name, throw

throw someone's name around

Fig. to affect bodies by adage you apperceive a acclaimed or affecting person. You won't get anywhere about actuality by throwing the mayor's name around. When you get to the meeting, aloof bandy my name about a bit, and bodies will pay absorption to you.Learn more: around, name, throw

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