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Meanings of pay compliments in English

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Usage of pay compliments in English
1
The grown-ups never pay compliments to those who are not grown up.
Independent.ie
2
Well, I did not come here to pay compliments, my young friend.
Ishmael; Or, In the Depths
3
You may therefore pay compliments without saying what is not true.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
4
I'd rather see you flare out like that than pay compliments.
A Ward of the Golden Gate
5
There, you see I can pay compliments as well as you.
A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day
6
Ah, but people who pay compliments deserve to be put on the rack.
Number Seventeen
7
It's the point upon which I don't pay compliments.'
Vittoria — Complete
8
You understand how to pay compliments admirably.
How Women Love (Soul Analysis)
9
I tell you, it is a talent by itself to pay compliments gracefully and have them ring true.
Mark Twain's Speeches
10
And you don't pay compliments, either.
Thyrza
11
Jack, indeed, was an apt disciple of the Blarney Stone, and could pay compliments with any man in Ireland.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy
12
You don't pay compliments, Dick.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 5
13
I don't pay compliments.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
14
By my faith, but you pay compliments with so grave a countenance, Monsieur, that I hardly know how to receive them.
When Wilderness Was King / A Tale of the Illinois Country
15
Do you love me-notjust to flirt and pay compliments, but truly-towant me more than any woman in the world?
Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California
16
Oh, but of course; I forgot Spaniards pay compliments to perfection, and you have learnt the art from them, you frozen Northerner.'
The Dictator
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