📚 Wax lyrical, phrase. ❓ Definition: Talk in a highly enthusiastic and effusive way. ❗️ Examples: 1. He waxed lyrical about his splendid son-in-law. 2. It is approaching midnight in a cafe on the outskirts of Moscow and a group of enthusiasts are waxing lyrical on the subject of their favourite car, the Lada. 3. In these pages last week, our art critic Iain Gale waxed lyrical - and certainly much more lyrically than I can ever wax - about the richness of the Demarco collection. 4. I mean, is it strictly necessary to emerge from the shower, grab a towel and commence a sawing action under your crotch while simultaneously waxing lyrical about Fairtrade bananas? 5. Dick Hyman is not one for waxing lyrical, but get him on the subject of his boyhood hero Bix Beiderbecke and the quiet American giant of jazz piano suddenly has plenty to say. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic