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  • n  an arrogant or conceited person of importance

  • Robert Crumb, the underground pooh-bah, provides one of his patented war-of-the-sexes pieces, "The Unbearable Tediousness of Being," where a dull nebbish attempts to woo a .
  • Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with .
  • Teddy the grand pooh-bah of the far left liberal extremists, like Bill Ayers and others of their kind, live on in their minds and hearts of this merry band of theives.
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  • What's cooking in Bryan County
    It hit me that once New Year's Eve comes around and we see other parties coming up, that you should be ready to spread the joy with family and friends. Well, at least the food. I guess the grand pooh-bah that started it was the Super Bowl Party.
    March 6, 2014 - Savannah Morning News
Quotes

  • Mel Gibson in FOXNews
    No, people aren't like that,Gibson tells the magazine. "Those are just the headlines: Mel ostracized by Hollywood! Hollywood is what you make it. There is no great pooh-bah up there saying, `Go! You are condemned!'"
  • Lance Armstrong in USA Today
    Ultimately, as I've been saying for a very long time, I don't think it's a doable situation in the National Football League to be the grand pooh-bah of all things football - the de facto director of football operations, the de facto general... Mark Schlereth http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Schlereth&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGCoOXGnV-4EPcQW1tFpKBq028FgQ Rocky Mountain News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/dec/30/players-past-present-struggle-with-emotions/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE_--moauGHJSPauBM1rEg-w4ysnQ Dec 30, 2008 75993 102703 pooh-pooh Other people serve their time just like everybody else, and when their time is up they get to go back to work," Armstrong said. "Sometimes I get frustrated when people will pooh-pooh his return, when you're going to stand up and cheer when...

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