CURRY FAVOR Definition & Meaning

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“Currying favor” with someone means trying to ingratiate oneself by fawning over that person: “The ambassador curried favor with the dictator by praising his construction projects.”

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Seek gain or advancement by fawning or flattery, as in Edith was famous for currying favor with her teachers . This expression originally came from the Old French estriller fauvel , “curry the fallow horse,” a beast that in a 14th-century allegory stood for duplicity and cunning. It came into English about 1400 as curry favel —that is, curry (groom with a currycomb) the animal—and in the 1500s became the present term.

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Though Schleifer’s family might be wealthy, the source said, the firing seemed politically motivated and meant to scare prosecutors who might pursue defendants who curry favor with Trump.

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In contrast, she was wary of Kennedy — too smooth, too willing to alter his backstory to curry favor.

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Meta’s attempt to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration reveals that power and profits, not a concern for truth or democracy, is what motivated billionaires to signal they were fighting fake news.

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Some felt Disney quickly settled the Stephanopoulos case to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration.

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There's no doubt that the titans of industry who hang around Mar-a-Lago attempting to curry favor with the president-elect have pointed to the potential of harvesting Greenland's rich natural resources.

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