praise to the skies, to
praise someone or something to the skies
Fig. to give someone or something much praise. He wasn't very good, but his friends praised him to the skies. They liked your pie. Everyone praised it to the skies.
See also: praise, skies
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
praise to the skies
Commend lavishly or excessively, as in The critics praised the new soprano to the skies. This expression, alluding to lofty praise, was in the 1600s put as extol to the skies but acquired its present form in the early 1800s. Also see sing one's praises.
See also: praise, skies
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
praise to the skies, to
To commend lavishly; by extension, excessively. Earlier versions of this expression include laud and extol to the skies/heavens/ stars, as in Sir Thomas More’s “They praysed him farre above the Starres” (The History of Kyng Richard the Third, 1513). See also sky's the limit.
See also: praise
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- get credit for
- get credit for (something)
- palm off, to
- keep an eye on, to
- go to one's head, to
- (not) give a fig
- commentator's curse
- avoid like the plague, to
- bottom of it, at the/get to the
- dawn on (someone), to