Flatter with the intention of getting something.
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Examples for "brown-nose"
Examples for "brown-nose"
1'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
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.
6But there's little doubt which set of writers has been identified as the better bet to butter up.
7Cut the butter up when you take it out of the fridge, this helps to soften the butter faster.
8Without that added smokiness, head to lighter, crisper wines - still chardonnay to butter up the leeks, but not full-noise ones.
9Ireland entered the Twilight Zone yesterday -tipped into another dimension by a gaffe-proneGovernment's cheesy attempt to butter up the electorate.
10There, put them in that cupboard, and set the butter up here, and put the bread in this box, do you see?
11Bain and Cinven wouldn't need to butter up minority investors had they made their bid conditional on receiving 75 percent of the shares.
12With the likelihood of an election in at least the medium term, Fine Gael may take the opportunity to butter up its support base.
13Only butter and lactose prices registered increases in average prices, with butter up 0.2 percent and lactose up 6.8 percent.
14He also denied reports that he was buttering up China's Communist Party.
15Nothing butters up sports writers like sugar cookies slathered in cake batter.
16I even tried buttering up that asshole Gabe, but that didn't help.
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