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mutual admiration society
Idioms and Phrases
A relationship in which two people have strong feelings of esteem for each other and often exchange lavish compliments. The term may signify either genuine or pretended admiration, as in Each of them praised the other's book—it was a real mutual admiration society . The expression was invented by Henry David Thoreau in his journal (1851) and repeated by Oliver Wendell Holmes and others.Example Sentences
The Mutual Admiration Society forms the sunshine in which souls grow—great men come in groups.
The circle to which he belonged was a mutual admiration society.
They seem to form a mutual admiration society, and live to gain the praise of each other.
The Mutual Admiration Society is largely given up to criticism.
Each one of them takes credit for the victory, and the community of Sandgate becomes a large mutual admiration society.
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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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