Talk:shower on

RFD discussion: April–December 2017
SoP. Not a phrasal unit. Equinox ◑ 19:12, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

1.4 (shower something on/upon) Give a great number of things to (someone)
 * Hmm, dunno, its usually separable with an object. From Oxford (shower):
 * ‘the government showered praise on the young volunteers’


 * More example sentences:
 * ‘The sane people of the world saw it purely as a piece of comic genius, and showered awards upon the badly-drawn comedy.’
 * ‘He also recognized me, congratulated my brother and showered his blessing upon me.’
 * ‘The functions were not rituals to merely shower gifts on the birthday boy.’
 * ‘By showering favours on Elizabeth's relatives, Edward began to build up a faction to counter Warwick.’
 * ‘Pupils from the Harwich School and five primary schools joined in the custom, which represents the newly-elected mayor showering his blessings on the children.’
 * ‘Hillary forgives him and then Bill showers gifts upon her in gratitude.’
 * ‘It must have certainly helped him to shower benefits on his beloved city.’
 * ‘But his language mistakes were no barriers as kids and elders alike wanted to hear the man as he showered gifts on them.’
 * ‘He showered praises on the union parliamentary minister saying he enjoys the full support of Congress men in the state.’
 * ‘She consumed lavishly herself, showered expensive gifts on her dealers, and promoted Tupperware as part of an affluent suburban lifestyle.’
 * ‘The preposterous image of a benign West showering its goods on a grateful Africa / India / Indochina/wherever would surely have no purchase in a society where informed debate was the daily order.’
 * ‘Muthuraman, who has over 100 films behind him, set the tone for the function, showering praises on Balachander, and the superstar Rajnikanth rounded it off.’ DonnanZ (talk) 09:47, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * This uses the same sense of as shower with. It seems SoP to me. DCDuring (talk) 17:12, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
 * On the contrary, shower with and shower on have different objects (you shower [praise] on someone, but shower [someone] with praise), so the verb’s meaning is not the same. – Krun (talk) 14:06, 2 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Delete: Looks like just a verb with a preposition, and thus SOP. does not find much. We should not have bestow on either, I think. A redirect would be okay to support findability. --Dan Polansky (talk) 11:18, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete per Dan Polansky. --Barytonesis (talk) 20:45, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 03:29, 4 December 2017 (UTC)