This should not have been omitted: have kissed the Blarney Stone
作者:Last Hermit - 2000/01/29 23:52:17
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More alternatives: flatter, deal in flattery, have kissed the Blarney Stone compliment, hand out bouquets, praise overpraise, overdo it, lavish praise, lay it on thick puff, hype, promote, boost, cry up, overrate adulate, burn incense to, assail with flattery, turn one's head, make conceited butter up, soften up, soft-soap blarney cozen sweet-talk, sugar wheedle, coax, cajole, woo lull, soothe, beguile, deceive humor, indulge, pander to sugarcoat the pill, make things pleasant, tell people what they want to hear blandish, smooth, smarm press the flesh, make much of, be all over one, caress fawn, fawn on, cultivate, court, pay court to, massage one's ego smirk, smile scratch one's back, backscratch, curry favor, brown-nose, suck up to truckle to, toady to, pander to, be servile insinuate oneself, worm oneself into favor, get on the right side of, creep into one's good graces flatter oneself, have a swelled head, be vain
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