spread-eagle

adj 2verb 2

Collocations

SPREAD-EAGLE + NOUN

orator, speech

adj

Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.

Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.

a spread-eagle orator

a spread-eagle speech

verb

To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.

To put one's body in a spread eagle.

verb — defeat disastrously

a spread-eagle orator

Wiktionary

a spread-eagle speech

Wiktionary

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