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pour honey on

pour honey on noun: to praise or encourage wholeheartedly.

Noun

pour honey on (third-person singular simple present pours honey on, present participle pouring honey on, simple past and past participle poured honey on)

  1. (idiomatic, slang, transitive) To praise or encourage wholeheartedly.
    • You tryna pour honey on a midget lol2024 April 30, @_312DARIUS, Twitter
    • Tyrese Maxey i would pour honey on you but you play for the sixers you can get a fist bump lil nigga 🤜🏾2024 May 1, @stymead, Twitter

Forms of pour honey on

third-person singular presentpours honey on
present participlepouring honey on
past participlepoured honey on
pastpoured honey on

Origin of pour honey on

A aphorism first quoted by boxing heavyweight Riddick Bowe in a February 1993 edition of New York Magazine: "If you see me in a fight with a bear, do me a favor—pour honey on me”. Later in a 2023 Instagram post by Lebron James: "If you ever see me fighting in the forest with a Grizzly bear, HELP THE BEAR [crown emoji]" to which Shannon Sharpe replied "I'm pouring honey on you GOAT," both referring to a variation on Bowe’s aphorism. An earlier variation by Shannon Sharpe in a Twitter post in 2017: “IF* you see me and a bear fighting pour honey on me and help the bear.”

Questions about pour honey on

What does pour honey on mean?
Pour honey on means to praise or encourage wholeheartedly.
What part of speech is pour honey on?
Pour honey on is a noun.

Words near pour honey on in the dictionary

  1. pour fuel on the fire
  2. pour gasoline on the fire
  3. pour good money after bad
  4. pour honey in one's ear
  5. pour honey into one's ear
  6. pour honey on
  7. pour in
  8. pour into
  9. pour oil on troubled waters
  10. pour one out
  11. pour one's heart out

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