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Showing off, but make it culturally acceptable.
means A public display of things (or talents) for others to look at, judge, or admire.
from From Latin 'exhibere' — 'ex' (out) plus 'habere' (to hold) — meaning literally 'to hold out' or 'to present.' The word walked into English in the 1300s-1400s via French, first for the act of presenting something formally (even legal documents could be 'exhibited'), before narrowing toward the gallery-and-trade-show sense we use now.
- UK slang meaning
- making an exhibition of yourself means embarrassing yourself publicly
- World's Fairs
- 19th-century expos called exhibitions launched the Eiffel Tower
- sports usage
- exhibition games don't count, which is why nobody tries
- academic sense
- in UK universities it once meant a scholarship, not a display