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Meanings of court favour 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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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.
Usage of court favour in English
1
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.
6
There was a prevalent, though unfounded, conviction that they were maintained in power by a combination of court favour with Irish sedition.
7
They were both connected with the highest society of their times; both enjoyed court favour, and enjoyed it in the substantial shape of pensions.
8
The course he took shut him off from all chance of Court favour.
9
And he, Levisohn, was clever enough to see his way to Court favour.
10
The first three books were published while he yet basked in the sunshine of court favours.
11
Court favour cannot enrich a family in this country, and the operation of the law is tolerably equal.
12
The Court favoured their lead.
13
In this poem, the author has in the most lively manner, painted out the misfortune of depending on court favours.
14
Despite the reprehensible behaviour of the mother in removing the child, the court favoured the child remaining in its new settled environment.
15
Their feelings and sympathies were Hanoverian rather than English, and all court favours were bestowed as fast as possible upon their countrymen.
16
Knowing how precarious Court favour then was, his father, when young Rochefoucauld was only nine years old, sent him into the army.