Meanings of butter up in English

But I'd counted on having more time to butter up Nightingale first.

Don't look shocked, and I know how you go and butter up your professors.

He says it when he wants to let himself go and simply butter up a thing.

You really explained it well, Miri, and you know I'm not one to butter up my teachers.

I say so myself; and butter up my vanity with all the stimulating compliments I can think of.

But there's little doubt which set of writers has been identified as the better bet to butter up.

Cut the butter up when you take it out of the fridge, this helps to soften the butter faster.

Without that added smokiness, head to lighter, crisper wines - still chardonnay to butter up the leeks, but not full-noise ones.

Ireland entered the Twilight Zone yesterday -tipped into another dimension by a gaffe-proneGovernment's cheesy attempt to butter up the electorate.

There, put them in that cupboard, and set the butter up here, and put the bread in this box, do you see?

Bain and Cinven wouldn't need to butter up minority investors had they made their bid conditional on receiving 75 percent of the shares.

With the likelihood of an election in at least the medium term, Fine Gael may take the opportunity to butter up its support base.

Only butter and lactose prices registered increases in average prices, with butter up 0.2 percent and lactose up 6.8 percent.

He also denied reports that he was buttering up China's Communist Party.

Nothing butters up sports writers like sugar cookies slathered in cake batter.

I even tried buttering up that asshole Gabe, but that didn't help.