Exhibiting self-importance.
1To read their press, Conservatives should be cock-a-hoop at Labour's policy splurge.
2Australia, newly-crowned Tri-Nations champions are cock-a-hoop after their bonus point win over Italy.
3UK property website Zoopla, which is also contemplating a float, must be cock-a-hoop.
4This week, they arrive buoyant and cock-a-hoop, ready to take on the world.
5Naturally, the artist was cock-a-hoop about the outcome and who can blame her?
6The king and queen are cock-a-hoop like children who have defied a stern governor.
7The Taoiseach was understandably cock-a-hoop in the run-up to Christmas.
8For the moment Kevin Pietersen must be cock-a-hoop.
9The far-right, nationalist and anti-EU FN is cock-a-hoop at the US result, as it was with Brexit.
10He was cock-a-hoop; so were the photographers.
11LABOUR was cock-a-hoop this week.
12The innocent indie days when Blur strutted cock-a-hoop through Camden, all desert boots and snotty middle-class attitude, are long gone.
13With three wins and three defeats from his six games in charge, he has been cock-a-hoop or crestfallen so far.
14Instead they are cock-a-hoop.
15Transformed in one momentous weekend from fretful turkeys to political peacocks, they'll be cock-a-hoop when they return to Leinster House tomorrow.
16The adult-education sector is cock-a-hoop about the recently launched National Development Plan for the years 2000 to 2006.