"talk up" meaning in English

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      "form": "talking up",
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        {
          "text": "The restaurant had been talked up way too much, that it left me somewhat disappointed.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Charlie's been talking up Robbie in an attempt to set him up with Lucy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45:",
          "text": "Moreover, the new Prime Minister has already talked up the need for new strike-breaking legislation, in the form of requirements for railworkers to provide a minimum service during any industrial action.",
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        "To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
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          "_dis1": "96 4 0",
          "sense": "talk about someone positively",
          "word": "big up"
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        {
          "_dis1": "96 4 0",
          "sense": "talk about someone positively",
          "word": "promote"
        }
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        "To talk louder."
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        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To talk louder."
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          "_dis1": "42 58 0",
          "word": "chat up"
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          "_dis1": "3 96 0",
          "sense": "talk louder",
          "word": "speak up"
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        "intransitive"
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”\nAnd it’s said very well, and I like to hear a chap talk up that way; you are just the man for him—the likes of ye.",
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        "To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
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        "(intransitive) To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
      ],
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        "English transitive verbs"
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          "text": "The restaurant had been talked up way too much, that it left me somewhat disappointed.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Charlie's been talking up Robbie in an attempt to set him up with Lucy.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 21, Christian Wolmar, “Trevelyan must 'give a damn' and engage with the railway”, in RAIL, number 966, page 45:",
          "text": "Moreover, the new Prime Minister has already talked up the need for new strike-breaking legislation, in the form of requirements for railworkers to provide a minimum service during any industrial action.",
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      ],
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        "To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, transitive) To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it."
      ],
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    },
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      "glosses": [
        "To talk louder."
      ],
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        "(idiomatic, intransitive) To talk louder."
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”\nAnd it’s said very well, and I like to hear a chap talk up that way; you are just the man for him—the likes of ye.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
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        "(intransitive) To speak in a plain and candid way, or with bold impudence."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "talk about someone positively",
      "word": "big up"
    },
    {
      "sense": "talk about someone positively",
      "word": "promote"
    },
    {
      "sense": "talk louder",
      "word": "speak up"
    }
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