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I don't take it as a compliment at all.
"I think he was trying to be funny and give a compliment at the same time".
Vaughan pats the back of his hand in encouragement - a proper back handed compliment at the fielding.
That's not a dig, more a compliment at the selection of eclectic stories the Telegraph has dug up over the Easter weekend.
It is a backhanded compliment — indeed, hardly a compliment at all — but it is the truth that the opera's kaleidoscopic, expressionistic shifts were rendered so sensuously that I did not even perceive the music as atonal.
Other times, our interaction is more social: the flirtatious compliment at the shoe store, the funny story from the woman at the flower shop, or even the predictably sullen guy at the corner mini-mart.
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Michael Sheen lobs flirty, twinkling compliments at Helen Mirren.
All week, these fighters tossed compliments at each other.
It helps to get a lot of compliments at my age.
Having never done drugs (let alone horse tranquilizers), he took the compliments at face value.
Lewis Hamilton and his team throw compliments at each other over the team radio.
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