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curry favour to try to make someone like you or support you by doing things to please them. The government has promised lower taxes in an attempt to curry favour with the voters. (usually + with) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. He has been attempting to curry favour and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward. His firm conviction was that Falk had been trying all along to curry favour on the cheap with Hermann. |
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