back-patting

He had done his back-patting, now we got down to business.

But don't get too enthusiastic with the back-patting just yet.

So all the back-patting is worthwhile; the system works.

Clinton, for his part, got the public back-patting he craved just 11 days before the November elections.

Yet, Cleamons, who many believe will be a head coach soon, shrugged off the back-patting.

Wilcox won, %$d there was a social round of applause and back-patting.

Enough with the back-patting already," Gold said with a tired smile. "

But, despite much back-patting from CNN, the technology has not been seen since 2008.

I then did some mental back-patting, certain that I had just earned my dismissal.

Finally, after all the preliminaries and all the back-patting, Twelve got his chance to speak.

Danny Williams came aft to a little storm of back-patting. '

By the end of the film, arachnid butt has been duly kicked and back-patting is in order.

But once the earnestness and back-patting were done for the night, the event turned into an unapologetic social bash.

And I really don't think I deserve all that much back-patting- at least not for the military part of the mission.

It isn’t cause for celebration or back-patting.

We therefore cannot support this mutual back-patting.

The seminar had just descended into back-patting.

Seriously, how much back-patting can one industry endure?!

Therefore, at the best table in the room, there was a great deal of back-patting and cheek-kissing and hand-holding.

Snyder — as I reported last year when all the back-patting was going on — was an odd choice for a partner.

Amid the back-patting in this morning’s headlines, some in India were also cautioning officials not to get ahead of themselves.

Too often the result comes uneasily close to what might be called a vanity production, awash in nostalgia and mutual back-patting.

She shared the president’s ambivalence about political chores and the back-patting and schmoozing that can help get things done in Washington.

On-time records have become a source of advertising copy, newsletter back-patting and even in-cabin chatter.

The Leveson seminars have so far looked bogged down in self-analysis and congratulatory back-patting.