lay it on

Strongest matches

• admit
• confess
• disclose
• impart
• reveal
• suggest
• whisper

Strong matches

• breathe
• buzz
• hint
• insinuate
• intimate
• tell

Weak matches

• bend an ear
• crack to
• lay the gaff
• let in on
• spill to
• unload on

Strongest matches

• amplify
• exaggerate
• overstate

Strong matches

• act
• burlesque
• enact
• execute
• overdo
• perform
• playact
• present
• produce
• show
• splash
• stage

Weak matches

• farcialize
• give color to
• ham it up
• make a production of
• melodramatize
• play on heartstrings
• play to gallery
• play up
• tragedize

Strongest matches

• crouch
• grovel

Strong matches

• abase
• blandish
• bow
• cajole
• cotton
• court
• cower
• crawl
• creep
• cringe
• debase
• defer
• flatter
• invite
• jolly
• kneel
• kowtow
• massage
• oil
• pander
• scrape
• slaver
• snow
• stoop
• stroke
• submit
• toady
• truckle
• woo
• yield

Weak matches

• apple-polish
• be at beck and call
• be obsequious
• be servile
• brown-nose
• buddy up
• butter up
• cater to
• cave in to
• curry favor
• fall all over
• fall on one's knees
• honey up
• lick boots
• make up to
• pay court
• play up to

Strongest matches

• exaggerate
• overestimate
• overplay
• overrate
• overreach
• overstate
• overuse
• overvalue

Strong matches

• amplify
• belabor
• fatigue
• hype
• magnify
• overburden
• overindulge
• overload
• overtax
• overtire
• overwork
• pressure
• puff
• stretch

Weak matches

• be intemperate
• bite off too much
• do to death
• drive oneself
• go overboard
• go too far
• make federal case
• not know when to stop
• pile on
• run into the ground
• run riot
• strain oneself
• talk big
• wear down
• wear oneself out

Strong matches

• cajole
• gratify
• massage
• please
• satisfy
• snow
• soap
• stroke

Weak matches

• brown-nose
• fall all over
• play the game
• play up to
• politic
• soften up
• suck up to

Strong matches

• bootlick
• cajole
• flatter
• kowtow
• massage
• oil
• stroke
• truckle
• woo

Weak matches

• apple-polish
• be servile
• brown-nose
• butter up
• fall all over
• fall on one's knees
• honey up
• kiss one's feet
• kiss-up
• lick boots
• pay court
• play up to
• scratch one's back
• suck up to

Strong matches

• bootlick
• cajole
• flatter
• grovel
• kowtow
• massage
• oil
• stroke
• toady
• woo

Weak matches

• apple-polish
• be servile
• brown-nose
• butter up
• fall all over
• fall on one's knees
• honey up
• kiss one's feet
• kiss-up
• lick boots
• pay court
• play up to
• scratch one's back
• suck up to

Strongest matches

• cajole
• finagle

Strong matches

• banter
• blandish
• charm
• coax
• con
• court
• draw
• entice
• flatter
• inveigle
• kowtow
• oil
• persuade
• seduce
• snow
• soap
• soft-soap
• sweet-talk
• worm

Weak matches

• butter up
• soften up
• spread it on
• sweeten up
• work on