There is also a common theme here: delusions of grandeur.
A few of these were vanity labels created with little capital outlay to satisfy their owners' delusions of grandeur and more.
It is one of those delusions of grandeur from which we suffer.
I believe that too many people have delusions of grandeur about our military rôle abroad.
Yesterday, there was an elderly gentleman on our television screens—an elderly gentleman suffering from delusions of grandeur.
The scheme was conceived in the 1960s by politicians and planners with delusions of grandeur.
I suggest that there are slight undertones of delusions of grandeur in this type of phrase.
The ordinary people of this country have no need for the delusions of grandeur which huge-scale blocks of flats provide.
