DAMN SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WITH FAINT PRAISE

damn someone or something with faint praise: translation

damn someone or something with faint praise

Fig. to criticize someone or something indirectly by not praising enthusiastically. •

The critic did not say that he disliked the play, but he damned it with faint praise.

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Mrs. Brown is very proud of her son's achievements, but damns her daughter's with faint praise.