Seek favor by fawning or flattery.
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Examples for "curry favor"
Examples for "curry favor"
1They would say that you planned the whole thing to curry favor.
2By now she was willing to curry favor any way she could.
3You'll fight rooks, milk butterflies, and curry favor with the local giants.
4As a rule, sailors are glad to curry favor with the bos'n.
5Who spoke out against Ussa, doubtless to curry favor with the Covenant.
1Now persons wishing to curry favour with the Prince had maligned her.
2It never hurts to curry favour with the boss, I thought.
3He nattered Eustace to curry favour with him and his father.
4Besides, I will not sacrifice her to curry favour with the Worthbourne people.'
5To curry favour with stranger or kin, and make a show of compromise!
1That is the only means of retaining the court favor.
2What is hunger and court favor beside a broken heart and a desolate life?
3The reason was that favoritism rather than merit had been made the road to court favor.
4The very appearance of court favor, empty as it was, tended to render him more dangerous.
5Monopoly went by court favor, and its rights were often scandalously let and sometimes sublet as well.
1On the contrary there are many passages which Lucan would hardly have written while he was enjoying court favour: e.g.
2A deeper faith would have said, 'Perish court favour and everything that hinders me from making known whose I am.'
3It seems the proposals were a flash in the pan, or more likely, a populist attempt to court favour with right-wing voters.
4The Alexandrians were sorely harassed by Haephasstus, a lawyer, who had risen by court favour to the chief post in the city.
5Fortified in his allegiance and court favour by this alliance, he returned in triumph to Dublin, where he was welcomed with enthusiasm.
6There was a prevalent, though unfounded, conviction that they were maintained in power by a combination of court favour with Irish sedition.
7They were both connected with the highest society of their times; both enjoyed court favour, and enjoyed it in the substantial shape of pensions.
8The course he took shut him off from all chance of Court favour.
9And he, Levisohn, was clever enough to see his way to Court favour.
10The first three books were published while he yet basked in the sunshine of court favours.
11Court favour cannot enrich a family in this country, and the operation of the law is tolerably equal.
12The Court favoured their lead.
13In this poem, the author has in the most lively manner, painted out the misfortune of depending on court favours.
14Despite the reprehensible behaviour of the mother in removing the child, the court favoured the child remaining in its new settled environment.
15Their feelings and sympathies were Hanoverian rather than English, and all court favours were bestowed as fast as possible upon their countrymen.
16Knowing how precarious Court favour then was, his father, when young Rochefoucauld was only nine years old, sent him into the army.
Translations for court favour