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Let me pay a compliment to the president, if I may.
The money and the compliment were too much for me.
And she thought he had just given her a big compliment.
May I return the compliment and say the same about you?
Still, at the end of the day, they did pay me a real compliment.
Then, he asked the people in the group to give someone else a compliment.
But her husband's friend knew how to give a woman a compliment, she said.
Given the result, that may not be much of a compliment.
But it is a great compliment coming from those men.
There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment.
He had expected a compliment for a job well done.
All we did was compliment the guy that he had a future.
I do not think he mean it as a compliment.
After all, these services are free and we take it as a compliment if you ask.
That was no compliment, either, any more than the look on his face before had been.
Also, he did not like being told to stay out, despite the compliment to his face.
That he had come to see her at all was a great compliment.
You pay me a very pretty compliment at the beginning of your paper.
He wanted to believe it had been a compliment but was not at all sure.
He had never seemed to want to play with me before, and I took it as a great compliment.
The boy means it as a compliment, and in this case he's right.
In his way, he had just paid me a compliment.
Hope caught the name and saw the chance to turn an early compliment.
That I think of as a compliment, and it makes me feel good.
In any walk of life that would be a compliment.