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View synonyms for return the compliment

return the compliment



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, return the favor . Repay someone in kind, as in Her political opponent came out with a smear campaign, and she returned the compliment . Neither the compliment nor the favor in this idiom is necessarily desirable. [First half of 1700s]
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Example Sentences

“And might I return the compliment?”

He was happy to return the compliment.

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If you wish to return the compliment, blink and your cat might blink back.

Prince Charles will return the compliment in a speech he makes at the handover ceremony on Monday evening.

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The leaders of France and Germany were happy to return the compliment.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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