sing like a bird

verb

To have a beautiful singing voice.

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Meanings

verbsing 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)

present singular third person sings like a bird · participle present singing like a bird · past sang like a bird · participle past sung like a bird

  1. simileTo 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. idiomaticsimileTo 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
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