butter up

VERB
  1. flatter with the intention of getting something
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How To Use butter up In A Sentence

  • The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.
  • I've been lazily chucking in ordinary butter up until now, but I give the clarified stuff a try, and even strain it in, in obedience to Michel Roux Jr's particularly pernickety method. How to make perfect hollandaise sauce
  • The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.
  • It was a glowing reference but maybe designed to butter up his opponent and take his edge away. The Sun
  • The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.
  • The bank has to butter up investors because it is in a fiercely competitive market.
  • He's always trying to butter up the boss.
  • When you reach the place where your left hand feels empty without a piece of bread in it, just butter up another amole and try it. Her father`s daughter
  • She liked to butter up every new boss she had.
  • Butter up: if you add a teaspoon of oil to butter when frying it will prevent the butter from burning.
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