`Oh, fishing for a compliment!' sang Katie."

Now that's a phrase I know and understand.
The most common and blatant (is that the right word?) way to fish for a compliment is toask "How do I look?"
Another way is one I used blatantly (exactly the right word)
when I told one and all on Feb 1oth that it was my 75th birthday. I was fishing for the compliment that goes : " You're kidding! You sure don't look it!"
Quite different from a "tade-last I think. ??