"handsome couple"
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Anonymous
| Is some sort of an insult, right? I am watching Selling the OC (I know...) and someone said that to Austin and his wife, like "you're a handsome couple". |
Anonymous
| Dude. That is a compliment. |
Anonymous
| No, why would it be? |
Anonymous
| No, still a complement. |
Anonymous
What is it complementing? |
Anonymous
The insult. |
Anonymous
| No, you've got it backwards - it's a compliment. |
Anonymous
|
Pretty couple would be an insult.
Handsome woman, sometimes an insult Handsome couple: compliment. |
Anonymous
lol |
Anonymous
You can search the entire Internet, yet you still have no idea? |
Anonymous
| It means "good-looking couple." This isn't hard. |
Anonymous
| It's a compliment. Means the couple is good looking, might be a phrasing that mostly older people use rather than younger people. |
Anonymous
I am ESL, but handsome is a compliment to a man only, so is it not weird to say it to a woman? |
Anonymous
I have an idea for how to spell "compliment" correctly, yes. Complement means "go nicely with" something. Those earrings complement your blouse, for example. That's a complement. A compliment would be "You look nice in those earrings." Get it? I was correcting PP's misuse of a word. Now that you're caught up, you can participate in the thread. Just don't screw up again. We move at a fast pace here and cannot continue to dumb things down for you. |
Anonymous
Have you never heard the phrase "that's a handsome woman?" It's usually said about older women, but no, it's not a word exclusively used to flatter men. |