corsage, compliment , back-handed complimen, tnosegay, tussie-mussie, or posy

• Twenty years of the world wide web: What's the score?

  Science inspired the world wide web. Two decades on, the web has repaid the compliment by changing science
  

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Pollock's 'No. 5, 1948'

Who was 'Jack the Dripper'? In a 1956 Time magazine article, artist Jackson Pollock was referred to as "Jack the Dripper." The moniker referred to his famous painting technique in which Pollock splattered, sprayed and poured paint on a canvas on the floor, using sticks, brushes and syringes, rather than the more traditional method of spreading paint with a brush on an easel-propped canvas. Born on this date in 1912, Pollock would walk around the canvas, and often over it, attacking the picture from every direction and working from within the painting. His style of art was called "action painting." Though he became one of the leaders of the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock's work was met at first with as much derision as praise. In 2006, producer David Geffen sold a Pollock painting, No. 5, 1948, for $140 million — making it the world's most expensive painting.

Quote:

"Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was." — Jackson Pollock

Hans Christian Andersen, (April 2 1805 - August 4 1875) was a Danish author and poet famous for his fairy tales.

In June 1847, he paid his first visit to England and enjoyed a triumphal social success. When he left, Charles Dickens saw him off from Ramsgate pier (Shortly thereafter Dickens published David Copperfield, in which the character Uriah Heep is said to have been modelled on Andersen—a left-handed compliment, to say the least).

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compliment Show phonetics
noun
1 [C] a remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect:
She complained that her husband never paid her any compliments any more.
I take it as a compliment (= I am pleased) when people say I look like my mother.
Are you fishing for (= trying to get) compliments?
NOTE: Do not confuse with complement.

2 [S] an action which expresses approval or respect:
You should take it as a compliment when I fall asleep in your company - it means I'm relaxed.
Thank you so much for your help - I hope one day I'll be able to return/repay the compliment (= do something good for you).

compliments Show phonetics
plural noun FORMAL
1 My compliments... an expression of your appreciation or respect:
That was an excellent meal! My compliments to the chef.

2 with your compliments If you give something to someone with your compliments, you give it to them free:
We enclose a copy of our latest brochure, with our compliments.




compliment Show phonetics
verb [T]
to praise or express admiration for someone:
I was just complimenting Robert on his wonderful food.
I must compliment you on your handling of a very difficult situation.

complimentary Show phonetics
adjective
1 praising or expressing admiration for someone:
The reviews of his latest film have been highly complimentary.
She wasn't very complimentary about your performance, was she?
Our guests said some very complimentary things about the meal I'd cooked.
NOTE: The opposite is uncomplimentary.

2 If tickets, books, etc. are complimentary, they are given free, especially by a business.

【left-handed compliment US noun [C] (UK back-handed compliment)a remark that seems to say something pleasant about a person but could also be an insult
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)】

[名] 〔kmplmnt | km-〕

1 （…に関する）賛辞, ほめ言葉；おせじ；（言葉・行為による）敬意（の表現）((on ...))

a high compliment
たいへんなほめ言葉

a heartfelt compliment
心からの賛辞

pay ［make］ a compliment
賞賛する

return the ［a］ compliment
返礼する；((皮肉))仕返しする

fish ［angle］ for compliments
相手が自分をほめるように仕向ける

pay him the compliment of welcoming him at the airport
彼に敬意を表して空港に迎えに行く.

2 ((〜s))丁重なあいさつ, （よろしくとの）あいさつ

the compliments of the season
（クリスマス・新年など）時候のあいさつ

make ［pay, present］ one's compliments to a person
人にあいさつする

(Give) my compliments to your father.
おとうさんによろしくお伝えください

My compliments to the chef.
料理長によろしく（▼料理へのほめ言葉）

With Mr. Smith's compliments ［＝With the compliments of Mr. Smith］
((贈呈品などに書き添えて))謹呈─スミスより.

━━[動] 〔kmplmènt | km-〕 (他)

1 〈人に〉（…の点で）賛辞［祝辞］を述べる, おせじを言う；〈人の〉（…を）ほめる, 賞賛する((on ...))

He complimented her on her beautiful French.
彼女の美しいフランス語をほめた.

2 〈人に〉（贈り物などで）好意［敬意］を示す；〈人に〉（…を）贈る((with ...))

They complimented us by offering a toast to our health.
私たちの健康を祈って乾杯してくれた

She complimented her mother with an orchid corsage.
母親にランの花束を贈った.

［フランス語←スペイン語cumplimiento （com-共に＋plēre満たす＋-MENT＝意を満たすようにすること→ほめること）. △COMPLEMENT］

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H. C. Anderson『安徒生文集(全四卷)』林樺譯，北京：人民文學，2005

 

Prom wrist corsages

Consideration is often given to selecting similar colors for the corsage as in the outfit.

A corsage /kɔrˈsɑːʒ/ is a small bouquet of flowers worn on a woman's dress or worn around her wrist.

• In some countries, corsages are worn by the mothers and grandmothers of the bride and groom at a wedding ceremony.^[1]
• The flower worn on a young woman's clothing or wrist for the homecoming celebration or other formal occasions such as prom in some schools around the world.

Sometimes incorrectly called corsages, flowers worn by men are boutonnieres.

Queen Elizabeth II (centre, in blue) and Prince Philip hold nosegays by Rosemary Hughes as they leave Wakefield Cathedral after the 2005 Royal Maundy

A nosegay, tussie-mussie, or posy is a small flower bouquet, typically given as a gift. They have existed in some form since at least medieval times, when they were carried or worn around the head or bodice.^[1]