Friday 22 January 2016

idioms - What does "waxed rhapsodic" mean?

To wax rhapsodic about something is a common idiom meaning to praise something excessively.



As James indicated, the verb to wax is a verb meaning to grow, but the verb is very uncommon outside of a few contexts such as this idiom, and when speaking of the phases of the moon.

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