BUTTER SOMEONE UP

Meaning of BUTTER SOMEONE UP in English

flatter someone He is trying to butter up his boss so that he can leave early on Friday.

English idioms vocab. Словарь английских идиом и выражений. 2012

BUTTER SOMEONE UP — informal flatter someone. → butter
Concise Oxford English vocab
BUTTER SOMEONE UP — (informal) FLATTER, court, wheedle, persuade, blarney, coax, get round, prevail on; be obsequious towards, be sycophantic towards, toady to, fawn …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SOMEONE — alcun, alquí
English interlingue dictionary
SOMEONE — pronoun Date: 14th century some person ; somebody
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
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
SOMEONE — ˈsəm(ˌ)wən pronoun Etymology: Middle English sum oon, from sum, som some + oon one : some person : somebody hoping …
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
SOMEONE — /sum"wun', -weuhn/ , pron. some person; somebody. [ 1275-1325; ME; see SOME, ONE ]
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
SOMEONE — pron. some person, somebody
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SOMEONE — n. person, human, human being
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
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
SOMEONE — pronoun Date: 14th century : some person : somebody
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
SOMEONE — ■ pronoun 1》 an unknown or unspecified person. 2》 a person of importance or authority.
Concise Oxford English vocab
SOMEONE — [some.one] pron (14c): some person: somebody
Merriam-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
SOMEONE — someone BrE AmE ˈsʌm wʌn § \ -wɒn ▶ ˌ someone ˈ clever BrE AmE ▶ ˌ someone ˈ else …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
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
SOMEONE — / ˈsʌmwʌn; NAmE / (also some·body ) pronoun 1. a person who is not known or mentioned by name : …
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
SOMEONE — I. some ‧ one 1 S1 W1 /ˈsʌmwʌn/ BrE AmE pronoun used to mean a person, when you do not …
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
SOMEONE — n. & pron. = SOMEBODY.
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
SOMEONE — n. & pron. = SOMEBODY.
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
SOMEONE — n. & pron. SOMEBODY.
Oxford English vocab
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
SOMEONE — or somebody Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use someone or …
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
SOMEONE — or somebody Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use ~ or …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
UP
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SOMEONE — pronoun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES take someone on an expedition ▪ He’s taking the boys on a camping expedition next …
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
SOMEONE — somebody [pronoun] - a single personThere's someone outside the house.Someone must have seen what happened.Surely someone knows where the documents …
Cambridge English vocab
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
SOMEONE — Synonyms and related words : Adamite, being, body, cat, chap, character, creature, customer, duck, earthling, fellow, groundling, guy, hand, head, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SOMEONE — pron. Function: pronoun Synonyms: SOMEBODY
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
SOMEONE — pronoun Synonyms: somebody
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
BUTTER
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
UP — INDEX: 1. moving up to a higher place 2. looking, facing, or pointing upwards 3. to move upwards through the …
Longman Activator English vocab
BUTTER — Curdled milk. (Genesis 18:8; 32:14; Judges 5:25; Job 20:17) Milk is generally offered to travellers in Palestine in a curdled …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
UP — 1. нареч. 1) вверх по, по направлению к 2) вдоль по; вглубь 3) против (течения, ветра и т. п.) 4) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SOMEONE — мест.; неопред. кто-нибудь, кто-то Syn : somebody, anybody кто-то, кто-нибудь, кто-либо - * else кто-то другой - * else's чужой, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BUTTER — 1. сущ. 1) масло; маслянистое вещество to churn, cream, make butter ≈ сбивать масло to spread butter (on bread) ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
UP — 1. ʌp n 1. поезд, автобус и т. п. , идущий в большой город, в столицу или на север 2. …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
SOMEONE — someone.ogg ʹsʌm|wʌn,-ʹsʌmwən indef pron кто-то, кто-нибудь, кто-либо someone else - кто-то другой someone else's - чужой, не свой someone or …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BUTTER — butter.ogg _I 1. ʹbʌtə n 1. масло bread and butter - хлеб с маслом cocoa butter [pсм. cacao butter vegetable …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
BUTTER — 1) масло 2) полутвёрдый жир 3) с.-х. снопоуравниватель, подбойка 4) намазывать, покрывать ( напр. кирпичи раствором с помощью кельмы ) …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
BUTTER — 1) масло 2) полутвёрдый жир 3) с.-х. снопоуравниватель, подбойка 4) намазывать, покрывать (напр. кирпичи раствором с помощью кельмы) • - dairy butter - mineral butter - paraffin …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО

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