Definition of the Day 9-26-14 — Honest Opinion

HONEST OPINION, n. 1) A common means of losing friends, usually through an unwise response to the request, “Give me your honest opinion”; 2) The hook at the end of a line trolling for compliments. (thanks to Al Perry for the second definition)

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–from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the best modern successor to Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary