curry favor 的定义
- “Currying favor” with someone means trying to ingratiate oneself by fawning over that person: “The ambassador curried favor with the dictator by praising his construction projects.”
curry favor 近义词
butter up
更多curry favor例句
- Thirty-six percent were in favor and 38 percent were opposed.
- Finally, he takes us behind the scenes into how Obama came out in favor of marriage equality that same year.
- So, why would a species like the banded mongoose favor breeding between relatives?
- Were the smugglers doing you a favor making it nearly impossible to bring any hope?
- This has won the Cuban rum no fans in Washington, which has shown favor for Bacardi in the past.
- At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
- His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.
- Factors which favor an early deposit are high acidity, diminished urinary pigments, and excessive excretion of uric acid.
- Edna was a trifle embarrassed at being thus signaled out for the imperious little woman's favor.
- The situation may be altogether in favor of the employer or altogether in favor of the men, or may occupy a middle ground.