kiss-ass 的定义
- Also, kiss up to. Seek or gain favor by fawning or flattery, as in I am not going to kiss as to get the raise I deserve, or If I could find a good way to kiss up to the publisher, my book would be well promoted. The first, a vulgar slangy usage, was first recorded in 1705 as kiss arse, which is still the British usage. The variant, a euphemistic blend of kiss ass and suck up to, dates from the late 1900s.
kiss-ass 近义词
等同于 brownnoser
更多kiss-ass例句
- Ass-kicking, bad guy-killing Carter is just a future spinster.
- So just looking forward to taking our sweet ass time with this next one.
- The revelation that, at age 42, Ben Affleck has one hell of an ass.
- He tries to kiss her again, but, he writes, “she didn't comply.”
- “The entertainers still entertain—and the people still have to get an ass-kicking to go out and vote,” Cosby said.
- She embraced Otteline; and gave him her hand to kiss, with repeated expressions of future confidence in the husband of her friend.
- The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
- On the impulse he embraced her, and in the darkness found her lips, and the kiss was like a soul touch.
- One more kiss at the carriage-window and the train started, for even Italian trains must start at last.
- And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.