talk up

British  

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to speak of or discuss favourably in order to arouse interest or support

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talk up Idioms  

1. Speak in favor of, promote, as in They were talking up their candidate all over the state. [Second half of 1800s]

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Example Sentences

"I'm nipping back and forth, like one minute I'm in Wrexham, back, then I've done a talk up in Bangor two days later, back, then a talk somewhere else – boom, boom, boom," adds Bellamy, who lives in Cardiff.

From BBC

In the store, I prided myself on being able to talk up a customer until I figured out what they liked and what they didn’t know they needed.

From Literature

Yet, as the 98th Academy Award demonstrated, the show isn’t equipped to do much more than talk up its own impact and hope to come out unscathed on the right side of history.

From Salon

Yet, as the 98th Academy Award demonstrated, the show isn’t equipped to do much more than talk up its own impact and hope to come out unscathed on the right side of history.

From Salon

If the boss is worried about slow response times, for example, you could talk up your habit of answering email and Slack messages right away.

From The Wall Street Journal