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单词 brown-nose
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brown-noseverb [ I ]

uk/ˈbraʊn.nəʊz/us/ˈbraʊn.noʊz/informal

to try too hard to please someone, especially someone in a position of authority, in a way that other people find unpleasant:

The rest of the class were sick of watching him brown-nose.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Praising insincerely or too eagerly

  • arse-licker
  • bow and scrape idiom
  • crawler
  • creep
  • cupboard love
  • fawn
  • flatter
  • flattery will get you nowhere idiom
  • glad-handing
  • grovel
  • idealize
  • ingratiate
  • left-handed compliment
  • massage sb's ego idiom
  • obsequious
  • play up to sb
  • schmooze
  • servile
  • slobber
  • unctuous

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