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to ingratiate oneself with someone

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  • ingratiate oneself — bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. → ingratiate …   English new terms dictionary

  • ingratiate oneself — CURRY FAVOUR WITH, cultivate, win over, get in someone s good books; toady to, crawl to, grovel to, fawn over, kowtow to, play up to, pander to, flatter, court; informal suck up to, rub up the right way, lick someone s boots. → ingratiate …   Useful english dictionary

  • ingratiate oneself — he has ingratiated himself with President Jiang by running ideological education campaigns Syn: curry favor with, cultivate, win over, get in good with; toady to, grovel to, fawn over, kowtow to, play up to, pander to, flatter, court, wheedle,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • ingratiate — a 17c Latinate loanword, is now normally used reflexively (with oneself etc.) in the meaning ‘to render oneself agreeable to someone, to bring oneself into favour with someone’: • The child glared at me so fiercely that I tried to ingratiate… …   Modern English usage

  • butter someone up — (informal) FLATTER, court, wheedle, persuade, blarney, coax, get round, prevail on; be obsequious towards, be sycophantic towards, toady to, fawn on, make up to, play up to, ingratiate oneself with, rub up the right way, curry favour with;… …   Useful english dictionary

  • ingratiate — ► VERB (ingratiate oneself) ▪ bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. DERIVATIVES ingratiating adjective ingratiation noun. ORIGIN from Latin in gratiam into favour …   English terms dictionary

  • lick someone's boots — To try to ingratiate oneself with someone by obsequious behaviour • • • Main Entry: ↑boot lick someone s boots To toady • • • Main Entry: ↑lick * * * lick someone’s boots informal phrase to try too hard to p …   Useful english dictionary

  • ingratiate — [ɪn greɪʃɪeɪt] verb (ingratiate oneself) bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. Derivatives ingratiating adjective ingratiatingly adverb ingratiation noun Origin C17: from L. in gratiam into favour …   English new terms dictionary

  • ingratiate — verb /ɪnˈɡreɪ.ʃi.eɪt/ to bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. The court jester isnt exactly ingratiating himself to the king, with his insults. See Also: ingratiating, ingratiation …   Wiktionary

  • ingratiate — [v] get on the good side of someone attract, blandish, brownnose*, captivate, charm, crawl, flatter, get in with*, grovel, hand a line*, insinuate oneself, kowtow*, play up to*, seek favor, truckle; concepts 7,22,68 Ant. deter, disgust, repel …   New thesaurus

  • lick someone's boots — lick someone s shoes nobody licks the boss s boots with more finesse than Little Miss Syn: suck up to, toady to, be servile to, be obsequious to, fawn over, flatter, butter up, ingratiate oneself with, brown nose with/to …   Thesaurus of popular words

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