| Word | damn someone with faint praise = damn something with faint praise |
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| Description | praise someone or something so unenthusiastically as to imply condemnation This expression comes from the poet Alexander Pope's EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT (1735) : Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. 1994 - Canadian Defence Quarterly - True there is the occasional condescending nod to those who served, but this frequently amounts to damning with faint praise. praise someone or something so unenthusiastically as to imply condemnation This expression comes from the poet Alexander Pope's EPISTLE TO DR ARBUTHNOT (1735) : Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer. And without sneering, teach the rest to sn |
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