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