The head on him and the price a cabbage

phr.

Heard in Waterford

An inflated sense of one's own importance; swollen-headed pride.

In use

Yer man over there won a bit of money in the Lotto. Would ya look at the head of him and de price a cabbage?

Posh English

That fellow over there won a modest sum on the lottery. Would you look at the ego on him now.