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fish for compliments
fish for compliments
fish for compliments
to try to make someone praise you, often by criticizing yourself to them (usually in continuous tenses)
Emma, you know you don't look fat in that dress. Are you fishing for compliments?
See also:
compliment
,
fish
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
IsabÈL
-
Occitan
Adriana
ahd-RYAH-nah
(Italian, Spanish, Polish)
, ayd-ree-AN-ə
(English)
Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, English
Ascroft
['æʃkrɔft]
Deorwine
-
Anglo-Saxon
Aldhard
-
Ancient Germanic
Andy
AN-dee
English
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