دیکشنری آنلاین تحلیلگران ( معنی فارسی back handed compliment )

back handed compliment

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English Dictionary

back handed compliment
a remark which seems approving but which is also negative

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Idioms

a back-handed compliment
[British, American & Australian, American]
a remark which seems approving but which is also negative.

He gave me that classic back-handed compliment. He said I played football very well 'for a woman'.

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