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backhanded compliment

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[backhanded compliment] {n. phr.}

A remark that sounds like a compliment but is said sarcastically.

* /"Not had for a girl" the coach said, offering a backhanded compliment./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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