English

Verb

sing like a bird

1. (simile) to divulge secrets with little coercion
   • 2004, Kasey Michaels, Maggie Without a Clue, Page 397

     Totila will sing like a bird to the cops once I show the photocopies, ...

2. (simile) to have a beautiful singing voice
   • 1882, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 131 Page 709

     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...

See also

• kick like a mule
• quack like a duck
• float like a butterfly
• songbird
• sting like a bee