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Significats de curry favor en anglès

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hacer la pelota

Seek favor by fawning or flattery.

hacer la pelota
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Examples for "curry favour"
Examples for "curry favour"
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Now persons wishing to curry favour with the Prince had maligned her.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
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It never hurts to curry favour with the boss, I thought.
Whispers Under Ground
3
He nattered Eustace to curry favour with him and his father.
My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
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Besides, I will not sacrifice her to curry favour with the Worthbourne people.'
Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife
5
To curry favour with stranger or kin, and make a show of compromise!
Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
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That is the only means of retaining the court favor.
Frederick the Great and His Court
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What is hunger and court favor beside a broken heart and a desolate life?
Rezanov
3
The reason was that favoritism rather than merit had been made the road to court favor.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
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The very appearance of court favor, empty as it was, tended to render him more dangerous.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part F. / From...
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Monopoly went by court favor, and its rights were often scandalously let and sometimes sublet as well.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
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On the contrary there are many passages which Lucan would hardly have written while he was enjoying court favour: e.g.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
2
A deeper faith would have said, 'Perish court favour and everything that hinders me from making known whose I am.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
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It seems the proposals were a flash in the pan, or more likely, a populist attempt to court favour with right-wing voters.
The South African
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The Alexandrians were sorely harassed by Haephasstus, a lawyer, who had risen by court favour to the chief post in the city.
History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (o...
5
Fortified in his allegiance and court favour by this alliance, he returned in triumph to Dublin, where he was welcomed with enthusiasm.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
Ús de curry favor en anglès
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They would say that you planned the whole thing to curry favor.
The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
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By now she was willing to curry favor any way she could.
Depraved
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You'll fight rooks, milk butterflies, and curry favor with the local giants.
Wired
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As a rule, sailors are glad to curry favor with the bos'n.
Harrigan
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Who spoke out against Ussa, doubtless to curry favor with the Covenant.
Broken Circle
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Ptolemy's advisers beheaded Pompey most of all to curry favor with Caesar.
Cleopatra: a life
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But it would set back recent efforts to curry favor with international financiers.
Reuters
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It looked like a base effort to curry favor with the English government.
In the Days of Poor Richard
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You would beggar my people, in order to curry favor with the Turk.
The Eye of Zeitoon
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He may have taken this method to curry favor with certain moneyed men.
The Rim of the Desert
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Didn't curry favor with so many of his fellow yellow cards.
The windup girl
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Or perhaps the populace wished to curry favor with the mad British king.
Devil Bones
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Swing-state senators accumulated power even during non-election years, both parties seeking to curry favor.
The bourne objective
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I came to the academy to learn, and not to curry favor with him.
Pocket Island: A Story of Country Life in New England
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You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king.
The Sisters — Volume 2
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He was probably trying to curry favor with his chief.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
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