idolize

Related to idolize: idolisation, overwhelmed

idolize (someone or something) as (something)

To view someone or something in a particularly admiring or reverential way. Johnny, your siblings idolize you as a real celebrity now that you've had the lead in a play. I'm not surprised that he's getting divorced again, what with the way he idolizes relationships as a cure for his depression.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

idolize someone or something as something

to worship or adore someone or something as being something. We all idolized Jim as our hero. They idolized wealth as a cure for all their ills.
See also: idolize
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • idolize (someone or something) as (something)
  • idolize as
  • sit at the feet of
  • sit at the feet of (someone)
  • sit at (someone's) feet
  • sit at someone's feet
  • pale beside
  • pale beside (someone or something)
  • pale beside/next to something
  • pale next to (someone or something)
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Idolize manager Neil Wylie revealed: 'Owen is out of the coma and is starting a rehabilitation programme.
Boy band pin-up is out of coma
LEADING racehorse trainer Mark Johnston has spoken of the "thrill" that he and his family enjoyed when Idolize became his first winner as a greyhound trainer in landing a Pelaw Grange handicap on Sunday.
Johnston enjoys winning "thrill"
Owen Griffin, 21, a singer with five-piece band Idolize, is fighting for his life after a horrific crash last week, which claimed the lives of a toddler and a young dad.
P0P STARLET IN C0MA; Singer Owen hurt in double death smash
If they indeed move away from northern development strategies, these nations can find some philosophical solace in the social teachings of the church, which has long been concerned with the West's tendency to idolize the free market.
Who's minding the Latin beat? Changing politcal realities in Latin America require U.S. attention, not intervention. (margin notes)
Mark Johnston's move into the greyhound world is getting more and more exciting and it will not be long before Crush, Affection and Idolize (Crash-Adored, October 2011) the three Johnston-trained runners, hit the track.
HITTING THE TRACK; Mick Livesey on the British breeding scene
As the first President to idolize Elvis Presley and have a favorite Beatle (Paul, I regret to report), Clinton raises generational and class anxieties about baby boomers actually coming into power.
Blame it on the baby boom
Hannon's apprentice Lee Newman notched a double, the "sixth or seventh" of his career, with good wins on Idolize and Eastwell Hall.
CHEPSTOW: Goddess has Mort hopeful