An official recognition of someone who did not win in a competition, but whose performance or entry was noteworthy.

plural of honorary mention

(idiomatic) Used to precede another comment about something just mentioned.

(linguistics, philosophy) A distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in "Cheese is derived from milk") and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in " 'Cheese' is derived from a word in Old English").

plural of use-mention distinction

Alternative form of now you mention it

too much or too many; an excessive amount of