suck up

But maybe what you were doing was sucking up to Mom and Dad, so they would keep liking you better.

So, people spend so much time, you know, sucking up to the owner, or the manager, you know, trying network. . .

In came the bailiffs. "One day, the banks are sucking up to you, the next they hate your guts, " he says with a Gallic shrug.

But maybe what you were doing was sucking up to Mom and Dad so they'd keep liking you better!

Eve is always sucking up to her boss, telling him how wonderful he is.

The reward is the bendy straw dagger, with an equip bonus of sucking up liquids that are awkwardly stuck to the bottom of containers.

Nonetheless, the Lausanne scientists could collect the pheromones by simply stressing mice and sucking up the air around them.

Today they include some of the world's biggest companies, sucking up profits at home and taking on the world market with a will.

Besides repelling swimmers, the algae were sucking up so much oxygen they were suffocating other aquatic life.

Terry and June's stifling urban setting is filled with toady underlings who enjoy sucking up to their arrogant bosses.

That is essential employees only. Matt Hartley will be drawing up the list. So stop sending me tacky flowers, and do your sucking up to him.

Young officers on-the-make are sucking up to her.

China, for the price of its patronage and protection, has been sucking up what's left of the shambling North Korean economy.

The world's forests act as a natural trap for carbon emissions, sucking up some 4. 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

Iron ore has always been the most important part of Vale's business, sucking up half of its capital spending.

The workers are all sucking up to him because he's the one who decides who'll get the bonuses.

Bill: Yeah, the only reason he's moved up so fast is by sucking up all the time.

Last month, Intel Corp. introduced new chips that it says will speed up computing performance without sucking up additional power.

Four different ships all sucking up oil and flaring gas in close formation is not something company sanction in normal circumstances.

So we're going to need a lot more help sucking up to us.

Car makers have been forced to operate on weekends to avoid sucking up electricity during peak weekday hours.

Can you imagine what would happen if a German corporation was sending cars through Washington sucking up all this information?

But on Main Street, China is likened to a giant vaccuum, sucking up American middle class jobs and investment.

The giant computers had spent their lives sucking up information like insatiable pumps , storing it , analyzing it, remembering it .

She's always sucking up to the boss, telling him how wonderful he is.

Here is an example that sends out the contents of a potentially large file without sucking up lots of memory.

She keeps sucking up to the principal.

TD's speciality is sucking up deposits, a cheap and stable form of funding.

With food sucking up more of their incomes their saving is likely to disappear altogether.

Start sucking up to them now! Maybe they wont come repossess us!

But the journal felt malaria, regardless of type, was "already sucking up too much attention, " she says.

He's in New York. Sucking up to ad execs.

I hate sucking up to my boss.

So, in that case, the only explanation is that there is something it here that actually is sucking up water or producing more water.

Robust, thick jaws are excellent at crushing snails, while longer jaws work well for sucking up algae.

Stop sucking up to Harry!

The web, in some sense, is kind of like a black hole, that's sucking up everything into it.

All those electronics around your home are sucking up juice even when you're not using them.

Rule number one -- don't bother sucking up. I already hate you. That's not gonna change.

In older versions of Windows, every application you have open is sucking up video memory, even if the windows are minimized.

Badly done, sucking up can end up alienating everyone.

But I don't agree that they are sucking up.

If I haven't told you that very much, it's because I'm afraid you'll think I'm sucking up.

Creative design features a vacuum cleaner that is sucking up the t-shirt.

When she reads Twilight, she is sucking up a complex maelstrom of psychosexual metaphor, and all before lunch.

Rita: What's with the "I love my boss" mug? Are you sucking up to me?

She's dead, Smithee. You can stop sucking up.

By the middle of 2010 SOMA was sucking up data from more than 200 sources, many of them newspaper websites.

Or you take the sucking-up route and make yourself charming by complimenting him and generally being chummy.

My brother wants a new video game. He's sucking up to Mum so that she'll buy the game for him.

He is sucking up my ball!

Eve is always sucking up to her boss, telling him how wonderful he is. Eve

Why social networks are sucking up more of your time

Study on the Rates of Sucking up Moisture with Maize Seeds During Their Germination

And we're sucking up the air in the earth from under me

A vacuum cleaner sucking up dirt