plural of honorable mention

(idiomatic) An award or recognition given to something that does not make it to a higher standing but is worth mentioning in an honorable way.

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

plural of use-mention distinction

(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").

Alternative form of now you mention it

too much or too many; an excessive amount of