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blowing someone's trumpet

blowing someone's trumpet is the present participle and gerund of blow someone's trumpet.

Meaning of blow someone's trumpet

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

Questions about blowing someone's trumpet

What is blowing someone's trumpet the present participle and gerund of?
Blowing someone's trumpet is the present participle and gerund of blow someone's trumpet.

Words near blowing someone's trumpet in the dictionary

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

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