单词 | curry favour |
释义 | curry favourIngratiate oneself with someone through obsequious behaviour: a wimpish attempt to curry favour with the new bosses...
Alteration of Middle English curry favel, from the name (Favel or Fauvel) of a chestnut horse in a 14th-century French romance who became a symbol of cunning and duplicity; hence ‘to curry (or groom) Favel’ meant to use the cunning which he personified See parent entry: curry |
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