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blow someone's trumpet

blow someone's trumpet verb: to praise someone.

Verb

blow someone's trumpet (third-person singular simple present blows someone's trumpet, present participle blowing someone's trumpet, simple past blew someone's trumpet, past participle blown someone's trumpet)

  1. To praise someone.
    • Of course they had heard Lucy speak of me, and it seemed that Dr. Van Helsing, too, has been quite “blowing my trumpet,” as Mr. Morris expressed it.1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula

Forms of blow someone's trumpet

third-person singular presentblows someone's trumpet
present participleblowing someone's trumpet
pastblew someone's trumpet
past participleblown someone's trumpet

Questions about blow someone's trumpet

What does blow someone's trumpet mean?
Blow someone's trumpet means to praise someone.
What part of speech is blow someone's trumpet?
Blow someone's trumpet is a verb.
What is the past tense of blow someone's trumpet?
The past tense of blow someone's trumpet is blew someone's trumpet.

Words near blow someone's trumpet in the dictionary

  1. blow someone's brains out
  2. blow someone's cover
  3. blow someone's mind
  4. blow someone's skirt up
  5. blow someone's socks off
  6. blow someone's trumpet
  7. blow sunshine up someone's ass
  8. blow sunshine up someone's skirt
  9. blow the coals
  10. blow the cobwebs away
  11. blow the doors off

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