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“You can say anything about me,” Lanois continues, “but I’m not a brown-noser. I won’t tell people what I think they want to hear. I’ll tell them the truth. And so I think Bob felt he could trust that part of me, and that’s why we went back in.”

You’re not a brown-noser, you’re their peer.

Buttigieg was not without his brown-noser points, though.

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“Oh, a thousand pardons, little brown-noser. If I’d only known that it was a prayer for the first game. There’s nothing in the world as tacky as a basketball game.”

“Brown-noser,” Mary Anne hissed at Karen.

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