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heap something on someone/something

to express a strong opinion about someone or something. Other leaders heaped praise on the president at the meeting.

Usage notes: often heap scorn on someone or something to express a strong lack of respect: He heaped scorn on those who thought the plan would work.

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? References in classic literature
These he deposited in a heap on the big table, and dipping again, he fished out the stragglers and added them to the pile. Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context It has taken me nearly six years to prepare these precious grains of dust, but the little heap on that dish is worth the price of a kingdom and many a king would give all he has to possess it. The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context Tongs, pincers, large ploughshares, filled the interior of the furnace, and glowed in a confused heap on the coals. Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context More results

References in classic literature

These he deposited in a heap on the big table, and dipping again, he fished out the stragglers and added them to the pile.

Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context

It has taken me nearly six years to prepare these precious grains of dust, but the little heap on that dish is worth the price of a kingdom and many a king would give all he has to possess it.

The Patchwork Girl of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context

Tongs, pincers, large ploughshares, filled the interior of the furnace, and glowed in a confused heap on the coals.

Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context

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