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Significados de curry favor em inglês

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Seek favor by fawning or flattery.

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Uso de curry favor em inglês
1
They would say that you planned the whole thing to curry favor.
The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere
2
By now she was willing to curry favor any way she could.
Depraved
3
You'll fight rooks, milk butterflies, and curry favor with the local giants.
Wired
4
As a rule, sailors are glad to curry favor with the bos'n.
Harrigan
5
Who spoke out against Ussa, doubtless to curry favor with the Covenant.
Broken Circle
6
Ptolemy's advisers beheaded Pompey most of all to curry favor with Caesar.
Cleopatra: a life
7
But it would set back recent efforts to curry favor with international financiers.
Reuters
8
It looked like a base effort to curry favor with the English government.
In the Days of Poor Richard
9
You would beggar my people, in order to curry favor with the Turk.
The Eye of Zeitoon
10
He may have taken this method to curry favor with certain moneyed men.
The Rim of the Desert
11
Didn't curry favor with so many of his fellow yellow cards.
The windup girl
12
Or perhaps the populace wished to curry favor with the mad British king.
Devil Bones
13
Swing-state senators accumulated power even during non-election years, both parties seeking to curry favor.
The bourne objective
14
I came to the academy to learn, and not to curry favor with him.
Pocket Island: A Story of Country Life in New England
15
You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king.
The Sisters — Volume 2
16
He was probably trying to curry favor with his chief.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
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Translations for curry favor
Curry favor ao longo do tempo
Curry favor nas variantes da língua
Estados Unidos da América
Comum
Reino Unido
Comum