BUTTER UP

Meaning of BUTTER UP in English

be nice to, suck up to

Butter him up before you ask to borrow his car.

Wayne Magnuson. English idioms vocabulary. Словарь английских идиом. 2012

BUTTER UP — transitive verb Date: 1819 to charm or beguile with lavish flattery or praise
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BUTTER UP — v. suck up, adulate someone in order to gain favor or advantage by behaving obsequiously
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
BUTTER UP — Date: 1819 : to charm or beguile with lavish flattery or praise
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BUTTER UP — Function: transitive verb Date: 1819 : to charm or beguile with lavish flattery or praise
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
BUTTER UP — [butter up] vt (1819): to charm or beguile with lavish flattery or praise
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BUTTER UP — If someone butters you up , they try to please you because they want you to help or support them. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUTTER UP — If someone butters you up, they try to please you because they want you to help or support them. (BRIT …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
BUTTER UP — {v.}, {informal} To try to get the favor or friendship of (a person) by flattery or pleasantness. * /He began …
Slang English vocab
BUTTER UP — See ↑ PRAISE 4
Longman Activator English vocab
BUTTER UP — v. ( colloq. ) ( d ; intr. ) to ~ to (he keeps buttering up to the boss)
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
BUTTER UP — {v.}, {informal} To try to get the favor or friendship of (a person) by flattery or pleasantness. * /He began …
Словарь английских идиом
BUTTER UP — be nice to, suck up to Butter him up before you ask to borrow his car.
English Idioms vocab
BUTTER UP — v. , informal To try to get the favor or friendship of (a person) by flattery or pleasantness. He began …
American Idioms English vocabulary
BUTTER UP — фраз. гл. грубо льстить If you butter Father up, do you think he'll lend us the car? ≈ Если ты …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BUTTER UP — phr v разг. грубо льстить
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BUTTER UP — грубо льстить
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BUTTER UP — phr v разг. грубо льстить
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
BUTTER UP — phr v разг. грубо льстить
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
BUTTER UP — умасливать, грубо льстить
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
BUTTER UP — умасливать, грубо льстить
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
BUTTER UP — фраз. гл. грубо льстить If you butter Father up, do you think he'll lend us the car? — Если ты …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
BUTTER UP — фраз. гл. грубо льстить If you butter Father up, do you think he'll lend us the car? — Если ты ублажишь папу, …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
BUTTER UP — грубо льстить If you butter Father up, do you think he'll lend us the car? He was just buttering up …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
BUTTER UP — грубо льстить If you butter Father up, do you think he'll lend us the car? He was just buttering up …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
BUTTER UP — грубо льстить
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
BUTTER UP — (v. phr.) умасливать, подмазываться: Why on Earth you're trying to butter me up ? Wanna get a day off?.- И …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь сленга, жаргона, русских имен
BUTTER UP — phrvt infml He began buttering me up — Он начал мне грубо льстить I wish she'd stop trying to butter me up …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики - Глазунов
BUTTER UP — phrvt infml He began buttering me up — Он начал мне грубо льстить I wish she'd stop trying to butter …
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современной разговорной лексики
BUTTER UP — butter up phrvt infml He began buttering me up Он начал мне грубо льстить I wish she'd stop trying to …
Англо-Русский новый словарь современного неформального английского языка
BUTTER UP — to Don't bother buttering up to me — Не надо ко мне подлизываться
Новый Англо-Русский словарь современного неформального английского
BUTTER UP — умасливать; подмазываться
Англо-Русский словарь английских идиом
BUTTER UP — умасливать, подмазываться
Англо-Русский словарь идиом
BUTTER UP — (v. phr.) умасливать, подмазываться: Why on Earth you're trying to butter me up ? Wanna get a day off?.- И …
English Russian slang dictionary
BUTTER UP — v. informal умасливать, подмазываться: Why on Earth you're trying to butter me up ? Wanna get a day off?. - …
Англо-Русский сленговый словарь
BUTTER UP — фраз. гл. грубо льстить If you butter Father up, do you think he'll lend us the car? ≈ Если ты …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
UP — I. (|)əp adverb Etymology: partly from Middle English up upward, from Old English ūp; partly from Middle English uppe on …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BUTTER — I. ˈbəd.ə(r), ˈbətə- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English butere; akin to Old Frisian & Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BUTTER — (n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter …
Английский словарь Webster
BUTTER — ( n. ) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
UP
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BUTTER — — butterless , adj. — butterlike , adj. /but"euhr/ , n. 1. the fatty portion of milk, separating as a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BUTTER — v. spread with butter, spread butter on
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
UP — I. ˈəp adverb Etymology: partly from Middle English up upward, from Old English ūp; partly from Middle English uppe on …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
BUTTER — I. ˈbə-tər noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English butere, from Latin butyrum, from Greek boutyron, from bous cow + …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
UP — prep upon. 2. up ·adv aside, so as not to be in use; as, to lay up riches; put up …
Webster English vocab
BUTTER — noun one who, or that which, butts. 2. butter ·vt to cover or spread with butter. 3. butter ·vt to …
Webster English vocab
BUTTER — [but.ter] n [ME, fr. OE butere, fr. L butyrum, fr. Gk boutyron, fr. bous cow + tyros cheese; akin to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BUTTER — a yellow-to-white solid emulsion of fat globules, water, and inorganic salts produced by churning the cream from cows' milk. Butter …
Britannica English vocabulary
BUTTER — butter BrE AmE ˈbʌt ə AmE ˈbʌt̬ ə r ▷ butter|ed d ▷ buttering ˈbʌt‿ ə r ɪŋ AmE ˈbʌt̬ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
UP — / ʌp; NAmE / adverb , preposition , adjective , verb , noun ■ adverb HELP NOTE : For the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUTTER — / ˈbʌtə(r); NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun [ U ] a soft yellow food made from cream or …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UP — I. up 1 S1 W1 /ʌp/ BrE AmE adverb , preposition , adjective 1 . TO A HIGHER POSITION towards …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BUTTER
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
UP — adv., prep., adj., n., & v. --adv. 1 at, in, or towards a higher place or position (jumped up in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BUTTER — n. & v. --n. 1 a a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
UP — adv., prep., adj., n., & v. adv. 1 at, in, or towards a higher place or position (jumped up in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BUTTER — n. & v. n. 1 a a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BUTTER — n. & v. --n. 1. a a pale yellow edible fatty substance made by churning cream and used as a …
Oxford English vocab
UP — I. PREPOSITION, ADVERB, AND ADJECTIVE USES The preposition is pronounced /ʌp/. The adverb and adjective are pronounced /ʌp/. Frequency: The …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BUTTER — ( butters, buttering, buttered) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Butter is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
UP
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BUTTER — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES brandy butter butter bean cocoa butter peanut butter shea butter COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BUTTER — [noun] [U] - a pale yellow fatty solid made from cream that is spread on bread or used in cookinga …
Cambridge English vocab
UP — Synonyms and related words : above, abovestairs, access, accession, accretion, accrual, accruement, accumulation, add to, addition, advance, against, aggrandize, aggrandizement, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary

English Idioms vocabulary

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