butter up
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
butter up (third-person singular simple present butters up, present participle buttering up, simple past and past participle buttered up)
- (transitive, figuratively) To flatter, especially with the intent of personal gain.
- He takes every opportunity to butter up the boss.
- 6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian[1]:
Translations[edit]
to flatter
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References[edit]
- “Butter up”, in BBC Learning English[2], BBC, 23 September 2014