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Meaning of sing the praises of | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

to commend (someone or something’s) attributes to others

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

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 herher car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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