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To curry favor

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	to seek to gain favor by flattery or attentions. See Favor, n.
	to seek to gain favor by flattery, caresses, kindness, or officious civilities.

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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

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