sing the praises of

English

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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 or something’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.

Translations

commend someone's attributes to others

• Finnish: ylistää (fi)
• French: chanter les louanges de, vanter les mérites de, se répandre en éloges sur
• Italian: cantare le lodi, tessere le lodi
• Polish: nachwalić się impf
• Spanish: cantar las alabanzas de
• Telugu: కీర్తిగానం (kīrtigānaṁ)

See also

• praise to the skies

Further reading

• “sing the praises of”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “sing the praises of sb sth”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “sing somebody s praises” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.