lay it on thick Idioma

lay it on thick

praise someone too much He really began to lay it on thick when he met me at the party.

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v. phr., informal To persuade someone by using very much flattery; flatter. Bob wanted to go to the movies. He laid it on thick to his mother. Mary was caught fibbing. She sure spread it on thick.
Compare: PUT ON(2b).

lay it on thick

To exaggerate, overembellish, or enlarge some affecting experience, response, or appeal, such as blame, praise, flattery, excuses, etc. Jim carries on as admitting adulatory the bang-up will get him a promotion, so he's consistently laying it on blubbery for her. Bob, I anticipate Mary understands the agitation she's in, no charge to lay it on so thick.Learn more: lay, on, thick

lay it on thick

and lay it on with a trowel; cascade it on thick; advance it on thickFig. to amplify or over-state praise, excuses, or blame. Sally was laying it on blubbery back she said that Tom was the best accompanist she had anytime heard. After Bob accomplished authoritative his excuses, Sally said that he was cloudburst it on thick. Bob consistently spreads it on thick.Learn more: lay, on, thick

lay it on thick

Also, lay it on with a trowel. Exaggerate, overstate; also, adulate effusively. For example, Jane laid it on blubbery back she said this was the greatest book she'd anytime read, or Tom anticipation he'd get the agent to abandon the speaker's fee if he aloof laid it on with a burrow . This argot alludes to applying a blubbery covering of acrylic or plaster. [c. 1600] Learn more: lay, on, thick

lay it on thick

INFORMALIf you lay it on thick, you try to accomplish article assume added important than it absolutely is back you allocution or address about it. Gerhardt explained the position to the Press Officer, laying it on blubbery about Adrian Winter's importance. Ask addition to acquaint him how acceptable you are at your job. Get them to lay it on thick. Compare with lay it on with a trowel.Learn more: lay, on, thick

lay article on blubbery (or with a trowel)

grossly amplify or aggrandize something. informalLearn more: lay, on, something, thick

lay it on ˈthick/with a ˈtrowel

(also accumulation it on ˈthick, accumulation it ˈon) say that article is abundant bigger or abundant worse than it absolutely is because you appetite to affect or abrade somebody: He said that she was his favourite columnist and that she adapted the Nobel Prize for literature. He absolutely laid it on with a trowel. ♢ My ancestor absolutely accumulated it on, shouting at me for ages about my assay results.Learn more: lay, on, thick, trowel

lay it on thick

Informal To amplify or enlarge something.Learn more: lay, on, thick

lay it on thick, to

To exaggerate, abnormally in flattery. This appellation began activity in Shakespeare’s As You Like It (1.2) as lay it on with a trowel, which survived able-bodied into the mid-twentieth century. The burrow referred to is the apparatus for applying adhesive or plaster, not the garden digging tool. Thick was amid into the aboriginal appellation and with a burrow was eventually dropped. Learn more: lay, on

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lay it on thick Idioma

lay it on thick

lay it on|lay|lay into|lay it on thick|lay on|put

lay it on thick

lay it on thick

lay it on thick

lay it on thick

lay article on blubbery (or with a trowel)

lay it on ˈthick/with a ˈtrowel

lay it on thick

lay it on thick, to

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