English Explanatory Dictionary

high on one's own supply

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. (of a drug dealer) Using the drugs which one sells, especially to excess.
  2. Assigning too much credibility to exaggerated favorable descriptions of one's character, achievements, or prospects; intoxicated by one's own braggadocio; enamored with one's own overvalued public image.

Word forms

high on one's own supply

Etymology

From a scene in the film Scarface (1983), in which drug dealer Tony Montana (Al Pacino) is mocked for excessively consuming cocaine from his own inventory. : 1983, Oliver Stone, Scarface, spoken by Elvira Hancock (Michelle Pfeiffer): Lesson number two: Don't get high on your own supply.

Related words

eat one's own dog food
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