lay it on thick

Meaning

1. to talk about sb / sth in a way that makes them or it seem much better or much worse than they really are; to exaggerate sth

   Praise them when necessary, but don't lay it on too thick.

In the movies · 3

• Now, that night, you drag out the lecture, you lay it on thick.Nightmare Alley2021
• I can't lay down a layer thick enough! It's evaporating too fast!The Incredibles2004
• -He's really laying it on thick, isn't he? -At least Hagrid didn't get fired.Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban2004

From the same entry

• give a thick ear
• thick as thieves
• thick as two short planks
• a thick head
• your thick head
• a thick skin
• blood is thicker than water
• thick on the ground
• in the thick of
• through thick and thin
• thick and fast