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单词 curry favour
释义

curry favour

ingratiate oneself with someone through obsequious behaviour
讨好, 拍马屁:

a wimpish attempt to curry favour with the new bosses.

讨好新上司的懦弱尝试。

[ORIGIN: alteration of Middle English curry favel, from the name (Favel or Fauvel) of a chestnut horse in a 14th-cent. French romance who became a symbol of cunning and duplicity; hence ' to rub down Favel' meant to use the cunning which he personified]

See main entry:curry

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