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For years, whenever I wanted to compliment someone, I’d quote the film’s famous line: “That’ll do, Pig, that’ll do.” Recently, I finally got my husband to watch the movie with me.
Many of us feel awkward accepting compliments—we might blush, avert eye contact, start mumbling in embarrassment, or even disparage ourselves. If that’s you, remember how good the person ...
The [name of sending state's] Embassy presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has the honor to invite their attention to the following matter. Notes verbales will also close with a formal valediction, typically: [1] The Embassy avails itself of this opportunity of assuring the Ministry of its highest consideration.
A compliment sandwich, [1] praise sandwich, or feedback sandwich is a rhetorical technique to deliver criticism in a way that it is accepted by the criticized person. It is named after the metaphor of a sandwich since it has three parts: [2] Praise of the addressee; Expressing what the speaker dislikes about the person; Further praise of the ...
This is a set category.It should only contain pages that are Pejorative terms for people or lists of Pejorative terms for people, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories).
Starting a compliment war doesn’t make you look humble. Instead, your flattering remark may come off as disingenuous—which is the last thing you want to happen. Avoid an awkward moment by ...
A compliments slip (or with compliments slip) is a slip of paper that contains the same name and address information that would be on a letterhead of formal letter stationery, the pre-printed salutation "with compliments" or "with our/my compliments", and space afterwards for a short handwritten message to be added.
When the suffix is added to a word ending in the letter y, the y before the suffix is replaced with the letter i, as in happily (from happy). This does not always apply in the case of monosyllabic words; for example, shy becomes shyly (but dry can become dryly or drily , and gay becomes gaily ).