| 词汇 | butter somebody ↔ up |
| 释义 | butter somebody ↔ upbutter somebody ↔ up phrasal verbphr v informalPRAISE to say nice things to someone so that they will do what you want 奉承，讨好〔某人〕 Don’t think you can butter me up that easily. 不要以为你这么容易就能讨好我。 Examples from the Corpus butter up• From the title I expected Nathan to just butter Jackie up.• Agree with him. Butter him up a bit.• Silly-Willie popped them back in the oven and buttered them up himself. → butter somebody ↔ up at butter2(1) |
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