over-use the names of celebrated or influential persons in order to impress others wth one's knowledge of them
Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren doesn't give him the right to bore us every week. BNCI
Interesting high-profile autobiographies that drop names like confetti: in Well, I Forget The Rest (Hutchinson, £17.99), Quentin Crewe, thrice-married, confesses: `;It has never taken me longer than a week-end to fall in love, usually less.'; BNCI