curry favor

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curry favor (with somebody)

to try to make someone like you or support you by doing or saying things to please them The candidate has promised lower taxes in an attempt to curry favor with the voters.

See also: curry, favor

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Poor old Uncle Silas--why, it's pitiful, him trying to curry favor that way--so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother. Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context I might have expected naught better from a turncoat foreign knave such as thee, who once joined in the councils of De Montfort, and then betrayed his friends to curry favor with the King. The Outlaw of Torn by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context They have heard he isn't coming and they think to curry favor with the great man by stopping away. My Lady's Money by Collins, Wilkie View in context			culminate in culturally culturally advantaged culturally deprived culture culture vulture cup cup hands together cupboard cupboard love curdle curdle blood cure cure of curiosity Curiosity killed the cat curl curl hair curl lip curl up curl up and die curl up with curly curly dirt curry curry favor curry favor with curry favour curse curse at curse for curse with curtain curtain off curtains for curtsy to curve curve to cushion cushion the blow cuss cuss a blue streak cuss out custody customer customer is always right cut cut a break cut a check cut a deal cut a figure			curries favour currish currish currishly currishly currishness currishness Currit tempus contra desides et sui juris contemptores Currituck County Currituck County High School Currituck County, NC Currituck County, North Carolina Currituck National Wildlife Refuge CURRNS CURRSTRM Currumbin State School Currumbin Valley State School curry curry curry curry Curry (dish) Curry (dish) Curry (programming) Curry Barbecue Sauce Curry County Curry County, New Mexico Curry County, NM Curry County, OR Curry County, Oregon curry favor curry favor with curry favour curry favour Curry goat Curry goat Curry Hammock State Park Curry laksa curry leaf Curry Leaves Curry line curry powder curry powders Curry puff Curry Residents Senior Meals Association Curry Sales, Inc. curry sauce Curry Tree Curry's paradoxical combinator Curry, Jabez Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, John Curry, John (Anthony) Curry, John (Anthony) Curry, John Steuart currycomb currycomb currycomb currycombed currycombed currycombed

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