beam with pride

beam with pride

To smile broadly and radiantly due to pride in something or someone. I was simply beaming with pride when my son was awarded his college diploma.
See also: beam, pride
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • burst with pride
  • have pride of place
  • swallow one's pride, to
  • be puffed up with pride
  • be puffed up with pride, etc.
  • puff
  • your pride and joy
  • pride and joy
  • pride and joy, one's
  • pride
References in periodicals archive
BILL and Hillary Clinton beam with pride as they welcome their first grandson Aidan into the world.
This is your President Grandpa & this will be President Granny
Summary: It is hard to say whether French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's loud declarations of support for Lebanon during his visit to the country this week should make the Lebanese beam with pride or cringe in fear.
The danger of viewing Syria through the prism of Lebanon
I'm sure Mrs Morgan would beam with pride to see her husband so well turned out.
Letter: Tailor-made response
And now I beam with pride as I achieve a major milestone in my personal mission.
A historic rite of passage
The Bhoys midfielder will beam with pride as he leads his country but is already dreading coming up against Larsson's Swedish side in Group C.
Football: Stan: I'm Petrified of Henrik
Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher must beam with pride every time he sees his nephew Stephen tee it up on the Tour because young Stevey-boy is turning into an accomplished player, writes Steve Palmer.
Golf: Solid Scot can be relied upon
But when he probed about their father or grandfather's techniques, the distillers seemed to beam with pride, going on and on about the family tradition.
Lick Bite
JONES THE BAT: Glamorgan's Simon Jones enjoyed an explosive entry into Test cricket by making India's players dive for cover and his family beam with pride as they watched his debut at Lord's.
CRICKET: Paceman Simon bowls `em over - with his batting
Mum Ann added: "She'll beam with pride flying the green, white and gold in Japan."
disability hero joanne off to japan for world award
MiChAel Jackson's children beam with pride as they launch a new album with previously unheard material by their dad.
Jacko's Immortal
SHANE Warne's long-suffering ex-wife Simone and daughter Brooke beam with pride yesterday as the serial womaniser sends England tumbling to another Ashes humiliation.
SHANE! SHAME; Aussie spin king's family celebrate.. ..as Barmy Army slams Freddie flops
SHE'S got less chance of being called Queen than Joe Pasquale or Mr Bean, but how Camilla will beam with pride, at ceasing to be Chaz's bit on the side
Charles & Camilla The Royal Wedding: Ode to a Royal Engagement; By Mr BRIAN READE Daily Mirror Poet Laureate and resident republican