{"id":1859,"date":"2018-04-11T11:19:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T03:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2018-04-11T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T03:19:49","slug":"damn-with-faint-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/damn-with-faint-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn with faint praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1858\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KFC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KFC.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KFC-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Verb<\/h2>\n<p><strong class=\"Latn headword\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\"><a title=\"damn\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/damn#English\">damn<\/a> <a title=\"with\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/with#English\">with<\/a> <a title=\"faint\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/faint#English\">faint<\/a> <a title=\"praise\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/praise#English\">praise<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span class=\"ib-brac\">(<\/span><span class=\"ib-content\"><a title=\"Appendix:Glossary\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic\">idiomatic<\/a><\/span><span class=\"ib-brac\">)<\/span> To provide praise that is <a title=\"minimal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/minimal\">minimal<\/a> or <a title=\"inconsequential\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inconsequential\">inconsequential<\/a>, implying that such praise is the best that could be said.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verb damn with faint praise (idiomatic) To provide praise that is minimal or inconsequential, implying that such praise is the best that could be said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-food-and-drink"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}