Flatter with the intention of getting something.
Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.
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Examples for "butter up"
Examples for "butter up"
1But I'd counted on having more time to butter up Nightingale first.
2Don't look shocked, and I know how you go and butter up your professors.
3He says it when he wants to let himself go and simply butter up a thing.
4You really explained it well, Miri, and you know I'm not one to butter up my teachers.
5I say so myself; and butter up my vanity with all the stimulating compliments I can think of.
1Every TFNG walked into NASA a slavishly loyal subject of King George, and we competed in pathetic attempts to brown-nose him.
2'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
3When Randolph was finally gone, Carter said: "If I swear I'm not brown-nosing, can I tell you something?"
4'Are you gonna tell Al we did to Jezzibella what they did to Brown-nose Bernhard?'
5Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.
Translations for brown-nose