Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn’t, or something that makes you feel like a 
for getting annoyed at it.
I’ll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music “bitcrunch”
Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn’t, or something that makes you feel like a for getting annoyed at it.
I’ll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music “bitcrunch”
I think the more correct way to phrase this idiom would be “putting on airs”
Anyway I have the same response but the problem with the English language is that most conventionally accepted pronunciations are “wrong”
Nope,
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air#:~:text=%3A outward appearance of a thing,an air of mystery
And colloquial English isn’t considered wrong and if it’s a common misproniniation then it’s just a pronunciation. That’s how language works, but one individual who clings onto pronouncing something wrong is different.
Meriam Webster, gross
Anyway, you’ll see with that usage it should have been “without putting on an air of pretension” or something like that
If you read slightly further down the page, you’ll see
Which is explained further here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Put_on_airs (NATOpedia, also gross)