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lay it on a bit thick idiom informal(alsolay it on with a trowel) to praise someone too much: 过分夸奖,过分赞誉 She went on and on about how she admired his work - laid it on a bit thick, if you ask me.她一直不停地在说对他的工作有多么钦佩——要我说有点过分了。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Exaggerating & playing down bloviate blow something out of proportionidiom cartoonish cartoonishly catastrophize fulsome go overboardidiom grandiloquent inflated make a mountain out of a molehillidiom make little of somethingidiom make much of somethingidiom make something of something/someone meal mildly minimization OTT protest too muchidiom underplay underrate
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