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(verb) - (1) To cease from boasting. --Albert Hyamson's Dictionary of English Phrases, 1922 (2) Sing small is another phrase which carelessness in pronunciation has changed from the original. The phrase should be "sink small," to be lowered in the estimation of one's fellows. --Edwin Radford's Encyclopaedia of Phrases and Origins, 1945
April 22, 2018