sing like a bird
verb1
To have a beautiful singing voice.
- When she had gone on a little, she began to sing like a bird, her sweet young voice rising on the air as if it had wings […]1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 131, page 709:
2
Idiomatic To divulge secrets with little coercion.
- Totila will sing like a bird to the cops once I show the photocopies, […]2004, Kasey Michaels, Maggie Without a Clue, page 397:
- Related terms
- float like a butterfly, kick like a mule, quack like a duck, songbird, sting like a bee