What is Coughing Up Chandeliers?


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to speak in an overly elaborate and ornamental manner, drawing more attention to your knowledge of language than to what is trying to be conveyed.

Jane would be a better journalist if she wasn't so busy coughing up chandeliers.

See ornament, decorate, lie, stretch


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