Paddy questioned, feeling as proud as a peacock with two tails.

"I'm just as proud as a peacock of Alonzo."

He was as proud as a peacock.

From the saying: "as proud as a peacock".

When you are as proud as a peacock (which never happened to me before), I find you can't move and can't talk.

In recent years the Yankee fan, once as proud as a peacock and twice as arrogant, has dissolved into an endangered species.

Tonga thought he had done something very clever in killing him, for when I came up by the rope I found him strutting about as proud as a peacock.

He'd felt, to use one of his father's favorite deflating phrases, as proud as a peacock as he stood in the front rank of the newest Academy class, awaiting the Commandant's first inspection.