stor i orden

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Swedish

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Adjective

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stor i orden (Literally: "big in the words")

  1. (idiomatic) about someone who is all hot air

Usage notes

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Sometimes expressed more derogatorily as stor i orden, liten på jorden (big in the words, small on Earth), to point out that the person is in addition pretty insignificant.