fish for compliments

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

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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