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fish for compliments

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fish for compliments

to try to make someone praise you, often by criticizing yourself to them. Emma, you know you don't look fat in that dress. Are you fishing for compliments? (usually in continuous tenses)

See also: compliment, fish

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Maybe it will be, I dunno, but really - and I'm not saying this to fish for compliments - I do not believe I'm that aesthetically beautiful. FOR ZETA-JONES, SO FAR, SO GOOD; HER CAREER IN U.S. ANYTHING BUT A ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) More results

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first things first
first-come, first-served
first-hand
first-past-the-post
first-string
first/highest/next rung on the ladder
fish

fish for compliments
fish or cut bait
fish out of water
fishing expedition
fist
fit
fit in
fit in with

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