trade last

/treɪd læst/
noun
  1. A compliment that one person has heard about another and offers to repeat in exchange for a compliment about oneself.
    • He asked for a trade-last, hoping to hear something nice someone had said about him.
    • She offered me a trade-last: she would tell me what her friend said about me if I told her what mine said about her.
    • At the party, they played a game of trade-last, sharing compliments they had overheard.
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