| 单词 | to curry favour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto curry favour b. Later, this phrase was transformed into to curry favour: to seek to win favour, or ingratiate oneself with another, by officious courtesy or unworthy complaisance. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)] fain?c1225 fawnc1325 to make placebo1340 fagea1382 curryc1400 to curry favela1420 to claw (a person's) toea1500 to curry favour?1518 to be at the school of placebo1554 to play (with) placebo1583 insinuatea1593 wriggle1601 lick1602 sycophantize1605 gnathonize1619 pickthank1621 supparasitate1623 ingratiate1647 slaver1730 toad-eat1766 slaum1787 to eat (any one's) toads1788 toad1802 bootlick1846 toady1861 to suck in1899 smoodge1906 smarm1911 arse-lick1928 bum-suck1930 to suck round1931 ass-lick1937 brown-nose1939 suck-hole1961 weasel1980 ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Hv Flatter nat as do some With none, cory fauell. 1557 Bible (Whittingham) Matt. viii. 20 (note) He thoght by this meanes to courry fauour with the worlde. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 470 [It] was then by him published to curry favour with the Royalists. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 250 A set of bravos who..attempted to curry favour with the government by affronting members of the opposition. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi xxiii. 472 Gossiping traders who seek to curry their favour. to curry favour to curry favour: corruption of to curry favel at curry v.1 5a; see favel n. 2.extracted from favourfavorn.< as lemmas |
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