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Synonyms for curry favor

Grammar : Verb
Spell : kur-ee, kuhr-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɜr i, ˈkʌr i

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Définition of curry favor

Origin :
  • early 16c., altered by folk etymology from curry favel (c.1400) from Old French correier fauvel "to be false, hypocritical," literally "to curry the chestnut horse," which in medieval French allegories was a symbol of cunning and deceit. See curry (v.). Old French fauvel is from a Germanic source and ultimately related to fallow (adj.); the sense here is entangled with that of similar-sounding Old French favele "lying, deception," from Latin fabella, diminutive of fabula (see fable (n.)).
  • verb butter up
Example sentences :
  • I came to the academy to learn, and not to curry favor with him.
  • Extract from : « Pocket Island » by Charles Clark Munn
  • She was like a dog which after a whipping tries to curry favor with its master.
  • Extract from : « 'Me-Smith' » by Caroline Lockhart
  • The wolf does not curry favor with the sheep-dog when it hungers for a lamb.
  • Extract from : « Children of the Desert » by Louis Dodge
  • You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king.
  • Extract from : « The Sisters, Complete » by Georg Ebers
  • It was necessary for Lubinka to curry favor with the chief of police.
  • Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov
  • I asked him straight out if it was to curry favor with the frat.
  • Extract from : « Ann Arbor Tales » by Karl Edwin Harriman
  • They would say that you planned the whole thing to curry favor.
  • Extract from : « The Social Cancer » by Jos Rizal
  • "I did not come here to curry favor with your people, padre," I replied.
  • Extract from : « A Volunteer with Pike » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • It's just to curry favor with the hofficers, it's me own hopinion.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Round Table, July 9, 1895 » by Various
  • To curry favor with these, tens of millions profess to have done the same.
  • Extract from : « Beyond » by Henry Seward Hubbard
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