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Significados de curry favour em inglês

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Seek favor by fawning or flattery.

hacer la pelota
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Examples for "curry favor"
Examples for "curry favor"
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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
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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
1
That is the only means of retaining the court favor.
Frederick the Great and His Court
2
What is hunger and court favor beside a broken heart and a desolate life?
Rezanov
3
The reason was that favoritism rather than merit had been made the road to court favor.
Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4
4
The very appearance of court favor, empty as it was, tended to render him more dangerous.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part F. / From...
5
Monopoly went by court favor, and its rights were often scandalously let and sometimes sublet as well.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
1
On the contrary there are many passages which Lucan would hardly have written while he was enjoying court favour: e.g.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
2
A deeper faith would have said, 'Perish court favour and everything that hinders me from making known whose I am.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
3
It seems the proposals were a flash in the pan, or more likely, a populist attempt to court favour with right-wing voters.
The South African
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The Alexandrians were sorely harassed by Haephasstus, a lawyer, who had risen by court favour to the chief post in the city.
History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (o...
5
Fortified in his allegiance and court favour by this alliance, he returned in triumph to Dublin, where he was welcomed with enthusiasm.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the E...
Uso de curry favour em inglês
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Now persons wishing to curry favour with the Prince had maligned her.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
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It never hurts to curry favour with the boss, I thought.
Whispers Under Ground
3
He nattered Eustace to curry favour with him and his father.
My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph
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Besides, I will not sacrifice her to curry favour with the Worthbourne people.'
Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife
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To curry favour with stranger or kin, and make a show of compromise!
Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
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Some had even started to curry favour by giving evidence against their own gender.
The Irish Times
7
But he would call and explain, and endeavour to curry favour in that way.
Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
8
But you were also out to curry favour with the king, don't deny it.'
King rolen's kin: the uncrowned king
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He would make the worst of things to curry favour.
Under Western Eyes
10
It may be thought that I want to curry favour.
Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading
11
She has turned against him to curry favour with his mother and his uncle!
The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / A Study with the Tex...
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You won't curry favour with him?-Youhold by fair play?
There & Back
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Lots of people were keen to curry favour with the wealthy and influential Veryan family.
The viscount and the virgin
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The Sophists all tried to curry favour with him.
Julian
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They have to play their part and curry favour.
A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection
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But prosecutors said that Peterson used the deal to curry favour and turn a personal profit.
Reuters
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