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

play up to

Exploit, trade on, or make the most of.He's also a mass of contradictions, desperately playing up to more successful ex-schoolmates and then verbally and physically assaulting them....

When every major presidential candidate contributes to a candidate or plays up to a labor activist in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, that makes it possible for the recipients of this attention to choose relatively freely.

Synonyms

ingratiate oneself with, seek the favour of, try to get on the good side of, curry favour with, court, fawn on/over, make up to, keep someone sweet, toady to, crawl to, grovel to, pander to, be obsequious towards, truckle to, flatter

informal soft-soap, suck up to, butter up, be all over, lick someone's boots

North American informal brown-nose

vulgar slang lick/kiss someone's arse

See parent entry: play

单词	play up to
释义	play up to Exploit, trade on, or make the most of.He's also a mass of contradictions, desperately playing up to more successful ex-schoolmates and then verbally and physically assaulting them.... When every major presidential candidate contributes to a candidate or plays up to a labor activist in Iowa, New Hampshire or South Carolina, that makes it possible for the recipients of this attention to choose relatively freely. Synonyms ingratiate oneself with, seek the favour of, try to get on the good side of, curry favour with, court, fawn on/over, make up to, keep someone sweet, toady to, crawl to, grovel to, pander to, be obsequious towards, truckle to, flatter informal soft-soap, suck up to, butter up, be all over, lick someone's boots North American informal brown-nose vulgar slang lick/kiss someone's arse See parent entry: play
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