sing the praises of

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English

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  • 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)

  1. (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.

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