damn (someone/something) with faint praise

to show only slight approval for someone or something.

By qualifying his support, you could argue he was damning these leaders with faint praise.

Maybe I'm damning them with faint praise, but the Yankees are easier to like than the Atlanta Braves in this series.

• refer to someone as someone
• refer to someone as something
• refer to something
• refer to something as
• refer to something as someone
• refer to something as something
• reflect on
• reflect on someone
• reflect on something
• refresh memory
• refresh your memory
• regardless of
• regardless of something
• reign of terror
• rein in
• rein in someone
• rein in something
• reinvent the wheel
• relate to
• relate to someone
• relate to something
• relax the reins
• relieve of
• relieve of something
• relieve you of