highfalutin, put paid to, give a reading, Live fire exercise/drill

China to carry out live-fire exercise in Taiwan Strait next week


Redmayne won an Oscar for playing Hawking in 2014’s The Theory of Eveyrthing.

Eddie Redmayne Gave a Reading at Stephen Hawking’s Funeral

The renowned physicist’s service was held at Great St. Mary’s Church in Cambridge on Saturday.

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Julia Lovell, Tragedy of Liberation: A history of early Maoist China puts paid to any notion of a ‘golden age’, Financial Times, 30 August 2013.

The Greco-Latin “Erectile dysfunction” is hardly direct; the word penis is never mentioned, and dysfunction is pretty highfalutin for something that simply isn’t working as it should.

A short exposition of Kahn's approach to capturing and excluding light in order to enhance our experience of built form and space. Yes, like so much of architectural writing it is a bit high falutin' at times, but it's illuminating, too. 

Live fire exercise - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_fire_exercise

A live-fire exercise or LFX is any military exercise in which a realistic scenario for the use of specific equipment is demonstrated. In the popular lexicon this is applied primarily to tests of weapons or weapon systems that are associated with the various branches of a nation's armed forces, although the term can be applied to ...

give a reading

to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music. 2. to utter aloud or render in speech (something written, printed, etc.):

put paid to

PHRASE

informal 

• Stop abruptly; destroy.

  ‘Denmark's victory put paid to our hopes of qualifying’

Urban Dictionary: high falutin

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groundless assumption of a higher status or affectation than actually contained.

highfalutin - Wiktionary

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/highfalutin

Alternative forms[edit]. hifalutin, highfaluting, high falutin. Etymology[edit]. Alteration of high-fluting. In his book, The Adventure of English, Melvyn Bragg records that in a nascent America, when the well-to-do travelled by steamboat, said passengers were referred to as highfalutin due to the high fluted funnels on the boats.

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Highfalutin | Definition of Highfalutin by Merriam-Webster

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/highfalutin

2 : expressed in or marked by the use of language that is elaborated or heightened by artificial or empty means : pompous. giving a highfalutin speech.