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apple-polish

/ap-uhl-pol-ish/US // ˈæp əlˌpɒl ɪʃ //

苹果打磨

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to curry favor with someone, especially in an obsequious or flattering manner.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to curry favor with.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”

  • “Gronkowski” itself never manages to sound more erotic than the name of a hearty Polish stew or a D-list WWE performer.

  • Apple customers, on the other hand, are used to paying premium for perceived quality.

  • The process of co-opting black music and selling it back to the adoring public in whiteface is as American as apple pie.

  • Companies like Delta, Apple, and Nike flex their political muscle on behalf of gay rights.

  • This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.

  • Twenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!

  • All this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.

  • And it did not take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope when there was no apple on the other side.

  • Then Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.