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get high on one’s own supply

As an idiom: to become overly confident or arrogant about one’s own hype, talk, image, abilities, ideas, products or accomplishments to the point of losing perspective and objectivity; letting (something) go to your head

Etymology:

  • believed to have originated from the illegal drug trade in the 1980s, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the United States; used as its literal interpretation in the 1983 graphic crime drama Scarface
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I don’t mean to get high on my own supply but I know what I’m talking about when I discuss the advantages my education has provided me.

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