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
Gray	[grei]
Margrit	MAHR-grit	German
Arch	[a:tʃ]
Blake	BLAYK	English
Nirav	-	Indian, Gujarati, Marathi
BernÁT	-	Hungarian