praise to the skies

Glorify without restraint

To praise to the skies is to lavish extravagant compliments on someone or something, often to the point of exaggeration: Critics praised the film to the skies, but I found it dull.

The image is of lifting someone so high with praise they reach the heavens.

Related

honor · extol · talk up · big up · grandiloquence · commendation · bombast · magnification · build up · wax lyrical · plaudit · flattery · lay it on thick · blow smoke · compliments · put on a pedestal · worship · glory

Opposites
degree of verbal evaluation

praise to the skiestear to shreds

vilify · drag through the mud · excoriate · condemn · lambaste

intensity of approval

praise to the skiesdamn with faint praise

Undercut through tepid approval

shrug off · dismiss · ignore · say nothing · understate

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G