Curry Favor

Definition: Curry Favor

Curry Favor

Verb

1. Seek favor by fawning or flattery; "This employee is currying favor with his superordinates".

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Synonyms: Curry Favor

Flattery

Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.

Love

Get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself; propitiate, curry favor with, pay one's court to, faire l'aimable, set one's cap at, flirt.

Crosswords: Curry Favor

You could argue he'd done it to curry favor with the guards. (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "curry favor": curry favor with ♦ curry favor with smb. ♦ To curry favor. Additional references.

Albanian

ia kreh bishtin dikujt (curry favor with smb., curry favour with smb.). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تملق (adulate, blandish, blarney, butter, butter up, cajole, cajolery, coax, coaxing, compliment, con, court, cringe, curry favor with, curry favour with, fawn, flatter, flattery, incense, ingratiate oneself, insinuation, kowtow, lick his boots, make, mawkish, oiliness, palaver, servilism, soap, soft soap, subservience, suck up to, sweet talk, taffy, toady, wheedle), ‏سعى لكسب ود شخص (curry favor with, curry favour with). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подмазвам се (crouch, curry favour, fawn, ingratiate smb., slaver, smarm). (various references)

Chinese 

巴結 (curry favor with, fawn on, make up to). (various references)

Hungarian

igyekszik magát behízelegni valakinek (curry favor with smb., curry favour with smb.). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

媚びる (to curry favor with, to fawn on, to flatter, to flirt with). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"びる (to curry favor with, to fawn on, to flatter, to flirt with). (various references)

Pig Latin

urrycay avorfay

Romanian

cãuta sã intre în graţiile cuiva (curry favor with smb., curry favour with smb.), se da bine pe lângã cineva (curry favor with smb., curry favour with smb.). (various references)

Russian 

выслужиться (curry favour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ulagivati se (adulate, curry favour, fawn, fawn on, flatter, kowtow, pander, rush, toady, toady to). (various references)

Spanish

congraciarse con (curry favour, fawn on). (various references)

Swedish

ställa in hos (curry favor with, curry favour with), fria till ngns gunst (curry favor with, curry favour with). (various references)

Turkish

yaranmaya çalışmak (curry favor with smb., make advances to smb.), yaltaklanmak (adulate, beslaver, blandish, blarney, bow and scrape, court, cringe, curry favor with smb., fawn, grovel, hustle, lick smb.'s boots, play to, slaver, soap down, toady, truckle, wheedle). (various references)

Ukrainian

підлещуватися (adulate, crouch, curry favour, flatter, palaver, wheedle). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: favour, orfray.

-5 letters: carry, cruor, crura, curry, curvy, farcy, favor, foray, furor, furry, ovary.