talk sth up
— phrasal verb with talk uk/tɔːk/us/tɑːk/verb [ I ]
to speak with enthusiasm about something:
If we talk up the event, people will come.
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Exaggerating & playing down
- blow sth out of proportion idiom
- drama queen
- dramatize
- exaggeration
- lard
- lay
- make a meal (out) of sth idiom
- make much of sth idiom
- make sth of sth
- meal
- over-egg the pudding idiom
- overboard
- overplay
- overstatement
- pad
- pudding
- stretch
- stretch the truth idiom
- talk sth down
- understatement
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Making people excited and interested