pay a compliment

Express praise or commendation to someone, as in Meredith wanted to pay Christopher a compliment so she told him she liked his new haircut . This expression uses pay in the sense of "give something that is due." [c. 1700]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jurryt	-	Frisian
Cohen	KO-ən	English
Corneliu	-	Romanian
Piero	PYE-ro	Italian
EirÍKr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Fatin (1)	-	Arabic