ingratiate oneself with someone through obsequious behaviour
讨好,拍马屁
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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
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curry favel , from the name (Favel orFauvel ) 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].