Seek favor by fawning or flattery.
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Examples for "curry favor"
Examples for "curry favor"
1They would say that you planned the whole thing to curry favor.
2By now she was willing to curry favor any way she could.
3You'll fight rooks, milk butterflies, and curry favor with the local giants.
4As a rule, sailors are glad to curry favor with the bos'n.
5Who spoke out against Ussa, doubtless to curry favor with the Covenant.
1Now persons wishing to curry favour with the Prince had maligned her.
2It never hurts to curry favour with the boss, I thought.
3He nattered Eustace to curry favour with him and his father.
4Besides, I will not sacrifice her to curry favour with the Worthbourne people.'
5To curry favour with stranger or kin, and make a show of compromise!
1On the contrary there are many passages which Lucan would hardly have written while he was enjoying court favour: e.g.
2A deeper faith would have said, 'Perish court favour and everything that hinders me from making known whose I am.'
3It seems the proposals were a flash in the pan, or more likely, a populist attempt to court favour with right-wing voters.
4The Alexandrians were sorely harassed by Haephasstus, a lawyer, who had risen by court favour to the chief post in the city.
5Fortified in his allegiance and court favour by this alliance, he returned in triumph to Dublin, where he was welcomed with enthusiasm.
1That is the only means of retaining the court favor.
2What is hunger and court favor beside a broken heart and a desolate life?
3The reason was that favoritism rather than merit had been made the road to court favor.
4The very appearance of court favor, empty as it was, tended to render him more dangerous.
5Monopoly went by court favor, and its rights were often scandalously let and sometimes sublet as well.
6To fawn upon; to court favor.
7On his arrival at London, he soon discovered that he was no longer an object of court favor.
8For a young woman to dream that she sees acrobats in tights, signifies that she will court favor of men.
9After this he came to Rome, where, through Maecenas, he became known to Octavius, and basked in the sunshine of court favor.
10It is a circumstance, this court favor, worth considering in the poet's life, as the antecedent to his manifold spirit of piety.
11Wang-sun Kiá asked him once, "What says the proverb, 'Better to court favor in the kitchen than in the drawing-room'?"
12The two fathers repaired to Dieppe, wafted on the wind of court favor, which they never doubted would bear them to their journey s end.
13He left the court favoring his left leg and didn't appear to put any weight on it.
14She was the dispenser of court favors, the arbiter of fortunes, the real ruler of the land.
15China courts favor by investing, not giving.
16How small the chance of any man rising in the world, who did not court favors from those who had favors to bestow!
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