butter up in English

verb

suck up, adulate someone in order to gain favor or advantage by behaving obsequiously

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1. He's always trying to butter up the boss.

2. He tried hard to butter up the Mayor.

3. People have a fine sense of who to butter up.

4. She liked to butter up every new boss she had.

5. He is two - faced subordinate and knows how to butter up the president!

6. He is two - faced person, He knows how to butter up those power!

7. 7 synonyms for Adulate: blandish, butter up, flatter, honey, slaver, soft-soap, sweet-talk

8. If you can butter up your boss, he won't give you a hard time.

9. 25 The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.

10. The Bank has to butter up both investors and intermediaries because it is in a fiercely competitive international market.

11. Butter up: if you add a teaspoon of oil to butter when frying it will prevent the butter from burning.

12. From Blandish (“to persuade someone by using flattery, to cajole; to praise someone dishonestly, to flatter or butter up”) +‎ -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs, having the sense of ‘the action or result of what is denoted by the verbs’).