mutual admiration
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmutualandadmiration
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mutual
adjective
uk/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/us/ˈmjuː.tʃu.əl/
(of two or more people or groups) feeling the same emotion, or doing the same thing to or for ...
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admiration
noun[U]
uk/ˌæd.mɪˈreɪ.ʃən/us/ˌæd.məˈreɪ.ʃən/
the feeling of admiring someone ...
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(Definition ofmutualandadmirationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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A lively and enthusiastic correspondence sprang up between the two men, their relationship developing into something of amutualadmirationsociety.
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For both men the relationship was unique in its combination of a strong personal liking and an equally strongmutualadmirationin professional matters.
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Indeed, one sometimes feels as if one has stumbled into a private party of somemutualadmirationsociety !
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The two dictators avoided tensing the rope too much not only because they professed a sort ofmutualadmiration.
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All reports of its meetings agree that its members never descended intomutualadmiration.
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We are in danger of becoming amutualadmirationsociety.
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This is not, however, amutualadmirationsociety; we are not collected here to pass compliments to one another.
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One had to guide certain things through to make certain they did not die in the glowing light of thismutualadmiration.
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It is a legislative assembly, not amutualadmirationsociety.
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Amutualadmirationsociety would perhaps better describe the position.
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What do you do in such a situation in real life, where there is no room for wastefulness ormutualadmiration?
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He then said that we on this side were becoming like amutualadmirationsociety.
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I hope that we are not amutualadmirationsociety.
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As we have agreed previously, it is amutualadmirationsociety.
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I would not describe the coal owners as amutualadmirationsociety by any manner of means.
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Thismutualadmirationsociety suggests that between us we must have got something right.
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I shall not develop themutualadmirationsociety further or it will become dangerous.
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This "live" debate sounded a bit like amutualadmirationsociety.
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We have had almost an atmosphere ofmutualadmiration.
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They are confined to amutualadmirationsociety and a small clique.
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