La lista de Idioms mostradas a continuación, competen al ítem sobre la Autoimportancia y la Humillación:
| Airs and graces | Shoot your mouth off |
| Put on airs (and graces) | Look down your nose at sth |
| A fallen angel | Rub sb’s nose in it |
| Get too big for your boots/britches | Rub sb’s nose in the dirt |
| Cap in hand | Knock sb off their pedestal |
| Hold in court | Bring/take sb down a peg or two |
| Eat crow | Hoist by your own petard |
| Egg on your face | Eat humble pie |
| Egg all over your face | Put sb in their place |
| Laugh on the other side of your face | Swallow your pride |
| Lose face | Cut sb down to size |
| Have feet of clay | A slap on the wrist |
| Clay feet | Make sb feel/look small |
| Fall from grace | Knock the stuffing out of sb |
| The moral high ground | With your tail between your legs |
| Hat in hand | A (little) tin god |
| Go to your head | Blow your own trumpet |
| Get on your high horse | Take the wind out of sb’s sail(s) |
| Come down off your high horse | Eat your words |
| All mouth and (no) trousers | Come down in the world |
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