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  2. 23 of the Best Backhanded Compliments We’ve Ever Heard - AOL

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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.

  3. English honorifics - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.

  4. Inside (Stiltskin song) - Wikipedia

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    It was written by Peter Lawlor for the British Levi's advert "Creek". "Inside" is a post-grunge song with lyrics about escaping oppression and based around Plato 's allegory of the cave . All instruments on the recording were played by Peter Lawlor, and lead vocals were provided by Ray Wilson , who would become the new Genesis singer after the ...

  5. Compliments Please - Wikipedia

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    A deluxe version was released in October 2019 with an additional track "Rooms". [ 14 ] Compliments Please was reissued on vinyl on 22 April 2023 for Record Store Day , [ 15 ] causing it to enter the vinyl charts top 10.

  6. Complimentary language and gender - Wikipedia

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    Compliments between men comprised a mere 9 percent of the data. [3] Similar patterns have been noted in studies of English speakers from other regions as well. In written discourse, too, such patterns arose, as women tended to compliment other women more often than they complimented men, and more often than men complimented either each other or ...

  7. Tall, dark and handsome - Wikipedia

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    David Puts is an associate professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University who has studied the evolutionary bases of human sexuality.In 2017 he was asked if "tall, dark and handsome" is universally attractive in the human experience and he stated that not enough cross-cultural work had been conducted to be very confident in the concept's scientific validity.

  8. British slang - Wikipedia

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    British slang is English-language slang originating from and used in the United Kingdom and also used to a limited extent in Anglophone countries such as India, Malaysia, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, especially by British expatriates. It is also used in the United States to a limited extent.

  9. Negging - Wikipedia

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    Negging ("to neg", meaning "negative feedback") is an act of emotional manipulation whereby a person makes a deliberate backhanded compliment or otherwise flirtatious remark to another person to undermine their confidence and attempt to engender in them a need for the manipulator's approval. [1] The term was coined and prescribed by pickup ...