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sing like a bird

sing like a bird verb: to have a beautiful singing voice.

Verb

sing like a bird (third-person singular simple present sings like a bird, present participle singing like a bird, simple past sang like a bird, past participle sung like a bird)

  1. (simile) To have a beautiful singing voice.
    • When she had gone on a little, she began to sing like a bird, her sweet young voice rising on the air as if it had wings […]1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 709
  2. (idiomatic, simile) To divulge secrets with little coercion.
    • Totila will sing like a bird to the cops once I show the photocopies, […]2004, Kasey Michaels, Maggie Without a Clue, page 397

Forms of sing like a bird

third-person singular presentsings like a bird
present participlesinging like a bird
pastsang like a bird
past participlesung like a bird

Questions about sing like a bird

What does sing like a bird mean?
Sing like a bird means to have a beautiful singing voice.
What part of speech is sing like a bird?
Sing like a bird is a verb.
What is the past tense of sing like a bird?
The past tense of sing like a bird is sang like a bird.

Words near sing like a bird in the dictionary

  1. sing for one's supper
  2. sing from the same hymn sheet
  3. sing from the same hymnal
  4. sing from the same hymnbook
  5. sing Kumbaya
  6. sing like a bird
  7. sing like a canary
  8. sing off the same hymn sheet
  9. sing out
  10. Sing Sing
  11. sing small

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