sing the praises of
English
Alternative forms
- sing someone's praises
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Verb
sing the praises of (third-person singular simple present sings the praises of, present participle sang the praises of, simple past and past participle sung the praises of)
- (idiomatic) to commend someone's attributes to others
- 1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
- She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
- 1919, Saki, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers
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Translations
commend someone's attributes to others
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