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
Dunstan	DUN-stən (English)	English (Rare), Anglo-Saxon
Abdul	-	Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, Bengali, Indonesian, Malay
Dido	-	Roman Mythology
Gu&Eth;RÍ&Eth;R	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Dai	-	Welsh
Prasert	-	Thai