left-handed compliment
Example Sentences
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It may be a left-handed compliment to say that “Berlin, I Love You” features no real duds even if some entries are disappointing.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2019
Melissa, take all this as a left-handed compliment: You were too good for them, you and a slew of sharp, professional people that they also got rid of.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2016
The perfect fit on a couple of levels is Wilson, who grew up 12 miles from Angels Stadium and is the quality left-handed compliment to the three right-handers.
From Newsweek ● Dec. 8, 2011
TORONTO: This is not a left-handed compliment: Blue Jays batting just .144 vs. lefties last 12 games.
From Los Angeles Times
Ten years later, he cannot even thank Gibbon for his History without the left-handed compliment, that he should never have expected such an excellent work from the pen of an Englishman.
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley
