lay it on with a trowel

"Other times you can lay it on with a trowel, and you should," he said.

Vanal thought he laid it on with a trowel.

Flora didn't like his fulsome tones; she thought he was laying it on with a trowel.

There was nothing, said the old lags affectionately, that the old boy would not believe; you could lay it on with a trowel.

Dean leaned out of the kitchen, behind Belinda, gave me a look that said he thought I was laying it on with a trowel.

Everyone likes flattery; and when it comes to royalty, you should lay it on with a trowel."

'I'd really like a smoke first,' I croaked, laying it on with a trowel.

Belinda said, Youre laying it on with a trowel, Garrett.

Disraeli laid it on with a trowel while flattering Queen Victoria and getting her to do his bidding.

"In the building biz, we called that laying it on with a trowel, Dr. Hadlock."

I laid it on with a trowel that we were impressed by the accuracy of his description and how it had made the match very likely.'

He was a nice man, and she quite liked him, but where Ven's charm came naturally, Lubor was laying it on with a trowel.

'Laying it on with a trowel,' George growled, reading the extensive report under Don Smart's by-line in the Daily News.

"Laying It On with a Trowel: The Proem to Lucan and Related Texts."

I was laying it on with a trowel, I don't mind admitting it, but I've always enjoyed being the centre of attention when that doesn't involve incoming fire. '

And that last damned powder you gave me would have done Jimmie of Fynnart a twelve- month and pointed up the whole of Linlithgow if you laid it on with a trowel.

More recently, the standout has been Richard Powers, who has put so much science into his undeniably brilliant novels - the genetic code in "The Gold Bug Variations," artificial intelligence in "Galatea 2.2" - that some critics have accused him of laying it on with a trowel.