curry favour

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curry favour

to try to make someone like you or support you by doing things to please them (usually + with ) The government has promised lower taxes in an attempt to curry favour with the voters.

See also: curry, favour

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With despair I pictured to myself how coldly and disdainfully that "scoundrel" Zverkov would meet me; with what dull-witted, invincible contempt the blockhead Trudolyubov would look at me; with what impudent rudeness the insect Ferfitchkin would snigger at me in order to curry favour with Zverkov; how completely Simonov would take it all in, and how he would despise me for the abjectness of my vanity and lack of spirit--and, worst of all, how paltry, unliterary, commonplace it would all be. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context He has been attempting to curry favour and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward. The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context His firm conviction was that Falk had been trying all along to curry favour on the cheap with Hermann. Falk - A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph View in context			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 cut a fine figure cut a rug			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 curry favor curry favor with 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 currycombing currycombing currycombing

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