Their own trumpets sounded on a long line, calling back the regiments and brigades.

I didn't write this timetable of events to blow our own trumpets or to give it loads.

We help in the "booming"; we are the big drum, the players provide their own trumpets.

That said, there is perhaps something rather un-British about the widespread blowing of our own trumpets over this behaviour.

We Irish usually blow our own trumpets with impunity on just about any occasion, whether we deserve it or not.

There is nothing to stop schools from blowing their own trumpets with regard to these other criteria and I admire those that do.

They blow their own trumpets; they stand and posture courteously in the ante-room, when what one desires is to go straight into the presence.

Instead of boasting and blowing their own trumpets, the Brits tend to make light of their shortcomings by being excessively modest and putting themselves down.

Those red berets were also in the mood to blow their own trumpets, claiming that they catalysed a "decisive generation" into decolonising the land.