waxing poetic
Growing eloquently expressive
Waxing poetic means becoming eloquent or lyrical, often excessively so.
Someone who waxes poetic speaks with heightened emotion or flowery language about a subject: He waxed poetic about his grandmother's cooking.
The phrase often carries a gently mocking tone, suggesting the speaker has grown sentimental or overblown.
- rhymedEnded with matching sounds
- effusionUnrestrained emotional discharge
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- silver tongueNatural persuasive ability
- rhapsodyEffusive musical composition
sentimentality · nostalgia · lyricism · floridity · purple prose · metaphor · prose · simile · romanticism · verbosity · going on and on · wistfulness · songwriting · melancholy · expounding · flights of fancy · alliteration · passion
- speechmakingorating, declaiming, speechifying, sermonizing, preaching
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