butter up
Verb
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Verb
butter up
- (transitive, figuratively) To flatter, especially with the intent of personal gain.
- He takes every opportunity to butter up the boss.
- 2013, Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban (in The Guardian, 6 September 2013)
- Joe Hart finished the night without a single grass stain on his kit and it was just a surprise the team did not butter up their goal difference even more once Welbeck had clipped in Lambert's through-ball five minutes into the second half.
- French: flatter, caresser dans le sens du poil
- German: Honig um den Bart schmieren, schmeicheln
- Italian: lusingare
- Portuguese: bajular
- Russian: льстить
- Spanish: lisonjear, (archaic) hacer el buz, (colloquial) hacer la pelota, incensar
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