# talk up

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/talk-up
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To talk about (something or someone) to make it seem as good as possible or to draw positive attention to it.

## Examples

- She always talks up her favourite restaurant to everyone.
- The manager talked up the new project to the investors, hoping they would agree to fund it.
- In his memoir, the retired diplomat talked up the fragile peace agreement as his greatest achievement, glossing over the years of failed negotiations that had preceded it.

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