blow someone's trumpet

verb

To praise someone.

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Meanings

verbblow 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)

present singular third person blows someone's trumpet · participle present blowing someone's trumpet · past blew someone's trumpet · participle past 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
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