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词组 pay someone a back-handed compliment
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Idiom
pay someone a back-handed compliment and pay someone a left-handed compliment
Theme: COMPLIMENT
to give someone a false compliment that is really an insult.
John said that he had never seen me looking better. I think he was paying me a left-handed compliment.I'd prefer that someone insulted me directly. I hate it when someone pays me a back-handed compliment—unless it's a joke.
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