sing someone's praises
sing (someone's or something's) praises
To speak very highly of something or someone; to enthusiastically endorse someone or something; to extol the virtues, benefits, or good qualities of someone or something. Our manager has been singing the new developers' praises. I hope they're up to the job! Jeff sang his phone's praises right up until it froze on him all of a sudden last night.
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sing someone's praises
Commend someone, especially to others, as in
They were singing her praises to the entire community. [Mid-1500s] Also see
praise to the skies.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive
Resist the urge to
sing someone's praises to get in their good books.
Ask yourself: Are you too cool to
sing someone's praises? Too busy to remark upon a loved one's best qualities?
Of course, it is easy to
sing someone's praises after they have scored a hat-trick against Arsenal and then followed up with a goal to secure Liverpool's place in the semi-finals of the Champions League.
Forget Jonathan Edwards' new day job, the triple-jump legend is not a man to
sing someone's praises willy-nilly.
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