Historical clue formulations

• A little too pleased with oneself — 2026-08-27
• Self-congratulatory — 2025-06-19
• High-and-mighty — 2025-06-02
• Full of oneself — 2024-07-31
• Quite pleased with oneself — 2024-07-22
• Puffed up — 2024-03-09
• Self-satisfied — 2022-09-15
• Self-satisfied — 2022-04-20
• Having excessive pride — 2022-02-03
• Cocksure — 2019-08-23
• Holier-than-thou — 2019-06-15
• Overly pleased with oneself — 2018-05-25
• Self-satisfied — 2017-10-07
• Like an "I told you so" look — 2015-12-31
• Thinking one is pretty hot stuff, say — 2015-05-08
• Self-satisfied — 2014-07-29
• Like one saying "I told you so!" — 2014-06-15
• Overly confident — 2014-02-23
• Complacent — 2013-10-12
• Like many a goody-goody — 2013-08-24
• Far from self-effacing — 2012-08-04
• Overweening — 2011-10-15
• Overconfident — 2010-05-02
• Full of oneself — 2010-01-05
• Too big for one's britches, say — 2009-03-08
• Contentedly confident — 2008-12-15
• Self-important — 2008-10-15
• Overly self-assured — 2008-06-17
• Very pleased with oneself — 2006-06-06
• Feeling superior — 2005-08-28
• Self-satisfied — 2003-10-27
• Confident of one's superiority — 2002-09-19
• More than self-confident — 2001-03-11
• Self-satisfied — 2000-04-24
• Like a stuffed shirt — 1998-11-21
• Complacent — 1998-04-01
• Overproud — 1997-09-17
• Self-satisfied — 1997-07-28
• Riding for a fall — 1997-06-08
• Complacent — 1994-10-28