单词 | butter somebody ↔ up |
释义 | butter somebody ↔ up From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbutter somebody ↔ up phrasal verbinformalPRAISE to say nice things to someone so that they will do what you want Don’t think you can butter me up that easily. → butter→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusbutter up• From the title I expected Nathan to just butter Jackie up.• Agree with him. Butter him up a bit.• Silly-Willie popped them back in the oven and buttered them up himself. |
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