sing like a bird

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sing like a bird (third-person singular simple present sings like a bird, present participle singing like a bird, simple past sang like a bird, past participle sung like a bird)

  1. (simile) To have a beautiful singing voice.
    • 1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 709:
      When she had gone on a little, she began to sing like a bird, her sweet young voice rising on the air as if it had wings []
  2. (simile) To divulge secrets with little coercion.
    • 2004, Kasey Michaels, Maggie Without a Clue, page 397:
      Totila will sing like a bird to the cops once I show the photocopies, []

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