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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鈥攊t 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
So there鈥檚 obviously been a mutual admiration society there.
Seattle鈥檚 two starting quarterbacks 鈥 Geno Smith and UW鈥檚 Michael Penix Jr. 鈥 got to know each other through a few workouts this offseason, forming a mutual admiration society.
Instead, as Smith and McAdoo met the media in their respective cities Thursday, they gave off the vibe of a mutual admiration society.
Nowhere was that more true than in the three movies he made for Stanley Kubrick, with whom he formed something of a mutual admiration society.
There's been a longtime mutual admiration society between the organized Christian right in the U.S. and Putin's government.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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