Thesaurus / apple-polish
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This gives to the second volume something of the smell of an apple store-room.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, NOVEMBER 3, 1894VARIOUSTwenty acres of apple trees all in a orchard together, and twenty acres of strawberries set out betwixt and between the rows!
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDENAll this while Squinty was chewing on the apple which he had picked up from the ground after he had jumped over the rope.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMAnd it did not take Squinty long to learn to jump the rope when there was no apple on the other side.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMThen Squinty would toss the apple up in the air, off his nose, and catch it as it came down.
SQUINTY THE COMICAL PIGRICHARD BARNUMThe Polish insurgents surrendered to the Prussian troops, after great slaughter, at Posen.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLIt is a fine marble, much too hard to admit of minute carving, but taking a high polish.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.It is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.
ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONESI must first make a dish of apple-sauce for the seven and seventy guests who are coming to my wedding-feast.
THE NURSERY, JULY 1873, VOL. XIV. NO. 1VARIOUSIn the middle of his singing he felt the cold touch of the Crab's claw on the apple of his throat.
KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW, BOOK IIRUDYARD KIPLINGWORDS RELATED TO APPLE-POLISH
- abase
- apple-polish
- be at beck and call
- be obsequious
- be servile
- blandish
- bow
- brown-nose
- buddy up
- butter up
- cajole
- cater to
- cave in to
- cotton
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- curry favor
- debase
- defer
- fall all over
- fall on one's knees
- flatter
- grovel
- honey up
- invite
- jolly
- kneel
- kowtow
- lay it on
- lick boots
- make up to
- massage
- oil
- pander
- pay court
- play up to
- scrape
- slaver
- snow
- stoop
- stroke
- submit
- toady
- truckle
- woo
- yield
- abased
- apple-polished
- blandished
- bowed
- brownnosed
- buddy up
- buttered up
- cajoled
- catered to
- caved in to
- cottoned
- courted
- cowered
- crawled
- crept
- cringed
- crouched
- curried favor
- debased
- deferred
- fell all over
- fell on one's knees
- flattered
- grovelled
- honey up
- invited
- jollied
- knelt
- kowtowed
- lay it on
- lick boots
- made up to
- massaged
- oiled
- paid court
- pandered
- played up to
- scraped
- slavered
- snowed
- stooped
- stroked
- submitted
- toadied
- truckled
- was at beck and called
- was obsequious
- was servile
- wooed
- yielded
- apple-polish
- beg
- beg for mercy
- beseech
- blandish
- bootlick
- bow and scrape
- brown-nose
- butter up
- cater to
- court
- cower
- crawl
- creep
- cringe
- crouch
- eat crow
- eat dirt
- eat humble pie
- fall all over
- fawn
- flatter
- humble oneself
- humor
- implore
- kiss one's feet
- kneel
- kowtow
- make much of
- make up to
- pamper
- play up to
- prostrate
- revere
- snivel
- soft-soap
- stoop
- suck up to
- truckle
- wheedle
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