suck up to sb
informal disapproving— phrasal verb with suck uk/sʌk/us/sʌk/verb
to try to make someone in authority approve of you by doing and saying things that will please them:
"Why do you think he offered to take all that work home?" "Oh, he's just sucking up to the boss."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
- arse-licker
- bow and scrape idiom
- brown-nose
- crawler
- creep
- fawn
- flatter
- flattery
- flattery will get you nowhere idiom
- glad-handing
- grovel
- idealize
- left-handed compliment
- massage
- massage sb's ego idiom
- obsequious
- play up to sb
- schmooze
- slobber
- unctuous
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