英语词汇“butter someone up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

butter someone up

informal Flatter or otherwise ingratiate oneself with someone.‘Magic Valley's industrial dairies try to butter us up with sweet talk and promises,’ the ad begins, ‘but the reality is as different as milk and molasses.’...

His strategy now is to frustrate Dookeran, muzzle Yetming and see if Jack can be buttered up.
‘See, he phones people just to say hello, but he's only buttering you up so he can ask you favours later,’ he continued.

Synonyms

be obsequious towards, grovel to, be servile towards, be sycophantic towards, kowtow to, abase oneself to, demean oneself to, bow and scrape to, prostrate oneself to, toady to, truckle to, dance attendance on, fawn on, make up to, play up to, ingratiate oneself with, rub up the right way, curry favour with;

wheedle, flatter, court, persuade, blarney, coax, talk into, get round, prevail on

informal suck up to, crawl to, creep to, be all over, lick someone's boots, fall all over, keep someone sweet, sweet-talk, soft-soap

North American brown-nose

vulgar slang lick/kiss someone's arse

archaic blandish

See parent entry: butter

单词	butter someone up
释义	butter someone up informal Flatter or otherwise ingratiate oneself with someone.‘Magic Valley's industrial dairies try to butter us up with sweet talk and promises,’ the ad begins, ‘but the reality is as different as milk and molasses.’... His strategy now is to frustrate Dookeran, muzzle Yetming and see if Jack can be buttered up. ‘See, he phones people just to say hello, but he's only buttering you up so he can ask you favours later,’ he continued. Synonyms be obsequious towards, grovel to, be servile towards, be sycophantic towards, kowtow to, abase oneself to, demean oneself to, bow and scrape to, prostrate oneself to, toady to, truckle to, dance attendance on, fawn on, make up to, play up to, ingratiate oneself with, rub up the right way, curry favour with; wheedle, flatter, court, persuade, blarney, coax, talk into, get round, prevail on informal suck up to, crawl to, creep to, be all over, lick someone's boots, fall all over, keep someone sweet, sweet-talk, soft-soap North American brown-nose vulgar slang lick/kiss someone's arse archaic blandish See parent entry: butter
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