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]