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Значения термина brown-nose на английском

португальский
bajular

Flatter with the intention of getting something.

bajular

Person who flatters others for the purpose of obtaining a personnal advantage.

Синонимы
Examples for "butter up"
Examples for "butter up"
1
But I'd counted on having more time to butter up Nightingale first.
Whispers Under Ground
2
Don't look shocked, and I know how you go and butter up your professors.
The ginger man
3
He says it when he wants to let himself go and simply butter up a thing.
Mike
4
You really explained it well, Miri, and you know I'm not one to butter up my teachers.
And the rat laughed
5
I say so myself; and butter up my vanity with all the stimulating compliments I can think of.
The Letters of Robert Burns
Использование термина brown-nose на английском
1
Every TFNG walked into NASA a slavishly loyal subject of King George, and we competed in pathetic attempts to brown-nose him.
Riding rockets
2
'You forgetting something, Jez; everyone forgets, except maybe good old brown-nose Bernhard.
The Naked God
3
When Randolph was finally gone, Carter said: "If I swear I'm not brown-nosing, can I tell you something?"
Under the dome: a novel
4
'Are you gonna tell Al we did to Jezzibella what they did to Brown-nose Bernhard?'
The Naked God
5
Aech must have thought I was brown-nosing, because she snickered throughout my stammering monologue, but Og was very cool about it.
Ready Player One
Translations for brown-nose
португальский
bajular