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Definition of the day : « curry favor »
- verb butter up
- I came to the academy to learn, and not to curry favor with him.
- Extract from : « Pocket Island » by Charles Clark Munn
- She was like a dog which after a whipping tries to curry favor with its master.
- Extract from : « 'Me-Smith' » by Caroline Lockhart
- The wolf does not curry favor with the sheep-dog when it hungers for a lamb.
- Extract from : « Children of the Desert » by Louis Dodge
- You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king.
- Extract from : « The Sisters, Complete » by Georg Ebers
- It was necessary for Lubinka to curry favor with the chief of police.
- Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov
- I asked him straight out if it was to curry favor with the frat.
- Extract from : « Ann Arbor Tales » by Karl Edwin Harriman
- They would say that you planned the whole thing to curry favor.
- Extract from : « The Social Cancer » by Jos Rizal
- "I did not come here to curry favor with your people, padre," I replied.
- Extract from : « A Volunteer with Pike » by Robert Ames Bennet
- It's just to curry favor with the hofficers, it's me own hopinion.
- Extract from : « Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 » by Various
- To curry favor with these, tens of millions profess to have done the same.
- Extract from : « Beyond » by Henry Seward Hubbard