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Idiom
Fish for compliments.
Usually said of someone who puts themselves down (similar to false modesty) in the hope that others will contradict them, and in the process, compliment them.
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(h) "I'd Rather Be Fishing for Compliments!" 12.
(h) "I'd Rather Be Fishing for Compliments!" (a) High school.
We just win," were not exactly fishing for compliments.
Sometimes I say to people, "Oh, I am old!" but I am just fishing for compliments.
On television, it might have come across as someone desperately fishing for compliments.
6 | Selfies Unless they're drunken friends with their sweaty faces stuck together, selfies are fishing for compliments.
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In one of those transparent fishing-for-compliments-moments, I replied: "Me too".
She's fat -- and not even in the politically incorrect, fishing-for-compliments way.
Princess (of Long Island) fishes for compliments.
Swallow pride, accept lack of due appreciation, fish for compliments... anything but a Libran sulk!
She never missed a deadline, didn't fish for compliments, and worked on a carefully calibrated mixture of cigarettes and Dexedrine.
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