Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
give flattery
Polish translation:
imitować, pochlebiać
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English term
give flattery
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Secret societies set up to combat secret societies give the same flattery. The Ku Klux Klan imitated the Catholic Church to the point of...
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English term (edited):
[to] give flattery
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imitować, pochlebiać
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This doesn't make sense. The only way it would make sense to me if it were...
......giving the same flattery.
Even then, it is pretty incomprehensible to me :-)
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Rip-off Report: NT Society Computer Mail - Sick Secret Society ...
14 Feb 2007 ... Are you also a victim of the same company or individual? ... These parasites seem to be manipulating through flattery and sycophantic ... Their secret society is probably less instructional as 'Girls Gone Wild' Videos. ...
www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/235/RipOff0235892.htm - 44k - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 23 mins (2008-12-14 19:37:06 GMT)
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Hey wait a minute
it should =
Secret societies set up to combat secret societes, give the same flattery.
So it is the first reference to "secret" societies" that "give" is referring to, not the second one, which is how I first read it :-)
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instead of "give"
"use" may be more understandable.
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soft-soap
use flattering talk on somebody, persuade someone through flattery
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p.s.
I think your phrase is poorly expressed in English.
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Note added at 30 mins (2008-12-14 19:44:36 GMT)
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Slang angielski 185
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Don't waste your time with soft soap. You have to be tough with him. Nie marnuj czasu na grzeczności. Musisz być z nim twardy. ...
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angielski - soft soap
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soft soap [WYMOWA: From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary at www.Merriam- Webster. (n) flattery; persuading by gentle means - łagodna perswazja ...
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......giving the same flattery.
Even then, it is pretty incomprehensible to me :-)
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Note added at 21 mins (2008-12-14 19:35:22 GMT)
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Rip-off Report: NT Society Computer Mail - Sick Secret Society ...
14 Feb 2007 ... Are you also a victim of the same company or individual? ... These parasites seem to be manipulating through flattery and sycophantic ... Their secret society is probably less instructional as 'Girls Gone Wild' Videos. ...
www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/235/RipOff0235892.htm - 44k - Cached - Similar pages
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Note added at 23 mins (2008-12-14 19:37:06 GMT)
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Hey wait a minute
it should =
Secret societies set up to combat secret societes, give the same flattery.
So it is the first reference to "secret" societies" that "give" is referring to, not the second one, which is how I first read it :-)
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Note added at 24 mins (2008-12-14 19:38:57 GMT)
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instead of "give"
"use" may be more understandable.
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Note added at 28 mins (2008-12-14 19:42:50 GMT)
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soft-soap
use flattering talk on somebody, persuade someone through flattery
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Note added at 29 mins (2008-12-14 19:43:16 GMT)
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p.s.
I think your phrase is poorly expressed in English.
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Note added at 30 mins (2008-12-14 19:44:36 GMT)
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Slang angielski 185
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Don't waste your time with soft soap. You have to be tough with him. Nie marnuj czasu na grzeczności. Musisz być z nim twardy. ...
www.myenglish.pl/slang_angielski.php?page=185 - 27k - Cached - Similar pages
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angielski - soft soap
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soft soap [WYMOWA: From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary at www.Merriam- Webster. (n) flattery; persuading by gentle means - łagodna perswazja ...
www.angielski.edu.pl/angielskie_idiomy_biznesowe/soft_soap_... - 40k - Cached - Similar pages
Discussion
And finally we come to what was certainly the most stunning, indeed, shocking aspect of Hofstadter’s study, namely, the process of psychological projection. The paranoid political advocate crafts a villainous enemy and imbues the enemy with horrendous traits. And to counter this, he crafts an organization which mimics the enemy and copies its traits.
It is hard to resist the conclusion that this enemy is on many counts the projection of the self; both the ideal and the unacceptable aspects of the self are attributed to him. The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship, even of pedantry. Secret organizations set up to combat secret organizations give the same flattery. The Ku Klux Klan imitated Catholicism to the point of donning priestly vestments, developing an elaborate ritual and an equally elaborate hierarchy. The John Birch Society emulates Communist cells and quasi-secret operation through “front” groups, and preaches a ruthless prosecution of the ideological war along lines very similar to those it finds in the Communist enemy. Spokesmen of the various fundamentalist anti-Communist “crusades” openly express their admiration for the dedication and discipline the Communist cause calls forth.