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• Artificially formal or contrived
• Laboured
• Perhaps it's 1 across sort of work for want of fresh air
• The South has got inclined to be so formal
• There's a nut in the door booming here, by the sound of it
• That may go off in such a pompous way with a stick without end
• Lacking an heir, by the sound of it
• Boasting about the way to blow an endless stick up
• It's hard to get a breath of anything so materialistic, perhaps
• So materialistic, perhaps, it takes your breath away
• Round and round, in a manner of speaking
• Blow up a stick, by the sound of it, in a boastful way
• 'Inflated, in a manner of speaking (13)'
• Stiffly phrased
• It's all in vain to get an insect into the country at last