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Used in situations where someone's motives, actions or words have either been wrongly interpreted or they haven't been properly conveyed.

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How to deal with an employer's backhanded compliments?

The fact that this is such a consistent pattern and the statement doesn't make sense in context suggests to me that the preface "I don't know why, but..." is merely said out of habit and the speaker d …
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