high on one's own supply

短语

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    (of a drug dealer) Using the drugs which one sells, especially to excess.

  2. 2.

    Assigning too much credibility to exaggerated favorable descriptions of one's character, achievements, or prospects; intoxicated by one's own braggadocio; enamored with one's own overvalued public image.

    比喻

    The relentless pursuit of realising his imagination on the big screen has come at a personal cost. […] The director admits he used to play up to the "image of what a film-maker was supposed to be. […] [D]on't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply."

    Trump […] seems to have gotten high on his own supply — he actually seems to believe the bizarre conspiracy theories his supporters drum up to excuse his actions.

    Tapper reminded viewers that there had been a lot of magical thinking lately on the part of Democrats and liberal pundits, who spent too much time entertaining pie-in-the-sky dreams […] imagining a landslide victory for Biden. "As they say, 'You can’t get high on your own supply,'" Tapper zinged.

词源

From a scene in the film Scarface (1983), in which drug dealer Tony Montana (Al Pacino) is mocked for excessively consuming cocaine from his own inventory. : 1983, Oliver Stone, Scarface, spoken by Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer): Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply.

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