TrumpetTo trumpet one's good deeds. The allusion is to the Pharisaic sect called the Almsgivers, who had a trumpet sounded before them, ostensibly to summon the poor together, but in reality to publish abroad their abnegation and benevolence.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Trumpet from Infoplease:
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