butter up
Example Sentences
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To get ahead, you can make the marinara base and roasted garlic butter up to a couple days before.
From Seattle Times ● May 8, 2022
Food prices are climbing sharply in Algeria, where shoppers say cooking oil and milk are so scarce that you need to butter up shopkeepers to get any.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2022
The company’s prepaid Connect plans launched in 2020 and were part of T-Mobile’s efforts to butter up regulators to allow its massive merger with Sprint to go through.
From The Verge ● Mar. 21, 2022
Bannon, as glib and charismatic as they come, takes full advantage of this, not neglecting to butter up the director by emphasizing how blown away he was by “Fog of War.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2019
Trujillo had announced we were going to have a free country—just like the Yanquis he was trying to butter up.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
