| 词汇 | lay it on with a trowel |
| 词源 | lay it on with a trowel. An Americanism first recorded in about 1839, at about the same time lay it on thick was recorded. Both phrases mean the same, that is to slavishly flatter, exag- gerate. A trowel, of course, is a tool used for depositing and working with mortar and plaster. |
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