butter up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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To get ahead, you can make the marinara base and roasted garlic butter up to a couple days before.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2022
The company’s prepaid Connect plans launched in 2020 and were part of T-Mobile’s efforts to butter up regulators to allow its massive merger with Sprint to go through.
From The Verge ● Mar. 21, 2022
Meantime, staffers at Rikers Island are apparently eagerly awaiting Weinstein’s arrival from Bellevue and say they won’t be giving him any special treatment — no matter how much he tries to butter up the guards.
From Fox News ● Feb. 25, 2020
Arabella Kushner after dinner entertainment : It was then Mr Trump's turn to butter up his hosts by screening a video of his granddaughter Arabella singing in Mandarin during the banquet.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2017
“That, my boy, is the front-page article for tomorrow’s paper. Or at least it will be if I can butter up the head editor.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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