Translation for "darse tono" to english

Darse tono

verb

• put on airs
• pose
• put it on
• swank
• posture

Translation examples

put on airs verb

Todo estaba tal como lo recordaba, salvo que esa vez ya era casi Navidad, por lo que en las ventanas había guirnaldas y escenas navideñas, vacilantes despliegues que indicaban un miedo a «darse tono», como si la Navidad perteneciera, por derecho, sólo a otras calles, a mejores barrios.
Everything was as I remembered, except that now it was almost Christmas, so wreaths and nativity scenes had been set up in front windows, hesitant displays that suggested a fear of “putting on airs,” as if Christmas belonged, by rights, only to other streets, better neighborhoods.

posture verb

Cualquiera que fuese su historia, Luboque era ahora un poseur que sólo sabía darse tono.
Whatever he had been before, Laboque was now a poseur who knew only how to posture.

—El mejor —dijo Hung, y eso lo delató; lo delató al querer darse tono, pues sólo el más ignorante bebedor diría eso.
"The best," Hung said, and that gave it away, the posturing, for only the most ignorant drinker would say that.