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Applause so loud it drowns out anyone telling you the truth.
means Excessive, often insincere praise or admiration heaped on someone, usually way past what they deserve.
from From Latin adulationem, the noun from adulari, 'to fawn on' — originally used of a dog wagging its tail and fawning at its master's feet. Rome stretched the word to cover humans doing the same thing with words: flattering, groveling, tail-wagging in sentence form.
- root
- latin adulari, to fawn like a dog
- danger
- feels like love, behaves like flattery
- pairs with
- usually precedes a very public fall
- not
- respect, which survives your mistakes