Okay.
I wonder if it's possible that people sometimes interpret or say things related to—I don't know if you're familiar with Jean de La Fontaine's fable in which the frog thinks it's a bull. The frog is very small and it very loudly proclaims that it knows everyone and is therefore important, whereas it isn't important at all, or at least not very important.
Isn't this situation similar to the frog that thinks it's a bull?