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单词 to praise to the skies
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to praise to the skies
P1. to the skies (also sky): to the highest possible degree; enthusiastically, extravagantly. In later use esp. in to praise to the skies.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > in or to the greatest degree
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with (also mid) the mostc1275
for the masteryc1325
to the bestc1390
to the uttermostc1400
at the hardest1429
to the utmostc1450
to the skies (also sky)1559
at float1594
all to nothing1606
to the height1609
to the proofa1625
to the last degree1639
to the welkin?1746
(the) worst kind1839
for all it's worth1864
as —— as they make them?a1880
in the highest1897
to the nth (degree, power)1897
up to eleven1987
1559 Passage Quene Elyzabeth (new ed.) sig. A.iii Blessing tonges, which many a welcome say Which pray thou maist do wel, which praise the to the sky.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. ii. ii. 104 Italians..alwaies extoll their owne things to the skie.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 191 Those of any Piety or Religion, commended it to the Skyes.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 71 You were extoll'd to the Skies, I assure you.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. viii. 196 The shield of Nestor, bruited to the skies.
1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 25 Rhymsters who praise 'em to the skies, And meanest actions eulogize.
1845 Brit. Farmer's Mag. Oct. 301 Some farmers cried it up to the skies, while others condemned it as useless.
1881 J. T. Wheeler Hist. India IV. ii. vii. 330 Flatterers applauded it to the skies.
1941 H. I. Priestley in War & Survival 125 The great dictators protest to the skies that all they seek is peace.
1973 P. J. Seybold Revolutionary Educ. in China xiv. 156 At one time they shouted ‘Long live the teachers’.., praising them to the skies.
2013 Church Times 15 Feb. 26/4 There were performances one could praise to the skies.
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