| 释义 |
curry favour ingratiate oneself with someone through obsequious behaviour 讨好, 拍马屁： a wimpish attempt to curry favour with the new bosses. 讨好新上司的懦弱尝试。 [ORIGIN: alteration of Middle English curry favel, from the name （Favel or Fauvel） of a chestnut horse in a 14th-cent. French romance who became a symbol of cunning and duplicity; hence ' to rub down Favel' meant to use the cunning which he personified] |