BUTTER UP

Meaning of BUTTER UP in English

v. , informal To try to get the favor or friendship of (a person) by flattery or pleasantness. He began to butter up the boss in hope of being given a better job.

Compare: POLISH THE APPLE.

American idioms English vocabulary. Английский словарь американских 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 — be nice to, suck up to Butter him up before you ask to borrow his car.
English Idioms 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

American Idioms English vocabulary

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