lard sth with sth
— phrasal verb with lard uk/lɑːd/us/lɑːrd/verb
If speech or a piece of writing is larded with a particular type of language, it has a lot of that type of language:
Her speech was larded with literary quotations.
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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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