sing small | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toassumeahumbletone.1753(indicated as1754), [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XVII. Miss Byron. In Continuation.”, inThe History of Sir Charles Grandison.[…], volume I, London:[…]S[amuel]Richardson;[a]nd sold by C. Hitch and L. Hawes,[…],→OCLC,page111:By all that's good, I muſt myſelfſing ſmallinhercompany!—I vvill never meet at hard-edge vvith her—[…]1877October, “The Nicotian Lotos-eater.[From the German of Leistner.]”, inCope’s Tobacco Plant. A Monthly Periodical, Interesting to the Manufactuerer, the Dealer, and the Smoker, volume II, number91, Liverpool, Lancashire: John Fraser,→OCLC,page86, column 2:Then shoots through my enjoyment / The one sharp drop of gall: / The host—the cur, the heathen— / On 'Baccysingeth small.To notsayanything; tokeep quiet.a.1850(date written),James Clarence Mangan, “An Invitation”, inPoems[…], New York, N.Y.: P. M. Haverty,[…], published1859,→OCLC,page436:Deutschland sleeps: her star has waned. / France, the Thundress whilome, now /Singeth small, with bated breath.Toplayaminorpart.; (singing,obsolete)Tosingsoftly.1603,Plutarch, “How a Man may Discerne a Flatterer from a Friend”, inPhilemon Holland, transl.,The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals[…], London:[…]Arnold Hatfield,→OCLC,pages93–94:[A]re not moſt of our kings being vvhen theyſing ſmalland fine, after a puling maner, ſalutedApolloesfor their muſicke:[…]c.1623–1624(date written),Tho[mas] Middleton, “Women Beware Women. A Tragedy”, inTwo New Playes.[…], London:[…]Humphrey Moseley,[…], published1657,→OCLC, Act IV, scene ii,page180:I marvell'd ſheſungſoſmallindeed, being no Maid.1870, J. P. Robson, “The Poet’s Photograph”, inEvangeline: Or, The Spirit of Progress;[…], Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland:[…]J. M. Carr,[…],→OCLC,page236:The Poet culls that dainty flowers; he saileth on the floods; / Leaps with the fountain's ecstacy,[sic– meaningecstasy]and dwelleth in the woods; / Launcheth his barque of hopeful song, nor dreads the roaring fall; / Singing with lark and nightingale, though oft hesingeth small.

Examples:

EN: "Liu": those who sing small songs, especially those who sing the music of eighteen.
HI: लोरी: स्त्री० [सं० लाल] वे गीत जो स्त्रियाँ छोटे बच्चों को सुलाने के लिए गाती हैं।
EN: here, you will have to sing small, Stephen Fausch, you will have to
HI: सूना है तुम शायर हो कुच्छ सुनाओ यार

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