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"Pay a backhanded compliment" nghĩa là gì?
29 Nov, 2019
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"Pay (someone) a backhanded compliment" có từ backhanded nghĩa là nửa đùa nửa thật, hai nghĩa -> cụm từ này nghĩa là khen ai một cách châm chọc (lời khen có thể hiểu là khen cũng có thể là chê bai).
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Last year’s edition was topped by “Get Out” and “Twin Peaks: The Return,” a TV series that many critics (nhà phê bình) chose to pay a backhanded compliment to by claiming it as a movie.
Rafael Van Der Vaart, Ronaldo's old teammate from Real Madrid, has chosen now to stick the knife in, or pay a backhanded compliment, depending on your reading, suggesting that the 31-year-old has little of interest about him.
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League, a Catholic anti-defamation organization, says he finds the candles more silly than offensive. “By definition, a celebrity doesn’t need a PR presence, so the likely motivating force is narcissism (tính tự yêu mình),” he says. “By ripping off Catholic iconography (sự mô tả bằng hình tượng), these celebs pay a backhanded compliment to the Catholic Church in their quest for notoriety (sự tai tiếng).”
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