Sing lung out

masahiko (Email Removed) wrote on 04 Dec 2003:
[nq:1]I sung my lung out. Does this mean that this person sung loudly as if the lung came out of the mouth?[/nq]
To be correct English, it would have to be "I sang my lung(s) out". Yes, it means that "I" sang loud and long and is exhausted. "I sang my heart out" would mean that "I" had put all "my" emotion into the songs "I" sang I gave my all

So do you mean that "I " sang loud and long until my lung got exhausted?

masahiko (Email Removed) wrote on 04 Dec 2003:
[nq:1]So do you mean that "I " sang loud and long until my lung got exhausted?[/nq]
If someone has a weak lung, that could be the meaning, but I suspect that the more common expression would be "I sang my lungs out" and now I'm very tired and (maybe) my vocal chords hurt and it hurts a little when I breathe. "I'm exhausted" rather than "My lun

[nq:1]I sung my lung out. Does this mean that this person sung loudly as if the lung came out of the mouth?[/nq]
It's just an expression, but it may have come from "to give out" meaning, to be used up, to be exhausted: "I sang until my lungs gave out, until my lungs worked no more, until they would not allow me to sing any longer."
"Heart" and "guts" and other body parts go in the expressi

[nq:1]I sung my lung out. Does this mean that this person sung loudly as if the lung came out of the mouth?[/nq]
Sing lung out was formerly Secretary General of the United Nations.
John Dean
Oxford
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