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lap up
verb
- to eat or drink
- to relish or delight in
he laps up old horror films
- to believe or accept eagerly and uncritically
he laps up tall stories
Idioms and Phrases
Take in or receive very eagerly, as in She loves to travel—she just laps it up , or The agency is lapping up whatever information their spies send in . This expression alludes to an animal drinking greedily. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
It’s boorish and grating, assuming its audience will lap up whatever tasteless parody it puts out for them just because it aligns with popular films that share its basic themes.
Pushback on social media suggests some IJGBs are all front - they may lap up the returning hero adulation but in fact lack financial clout.
It presents the conversation as chatty: they apparently discussed ice hockey, the kind of detail an audience back in Russia will lap up.
Other recent Netflix hits have been lapped up by viewers more than reviewers.
We lap up what algorithms feed us and spend so much time connecting with loved ones only through our screens.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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