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brown-nose
verb
to curry favour in a sycophantic fashion US, 1938- — American Speech, p. 54, February 1947: “Pacific War language”
- Don’t try and brownnose me Mike. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 143, 1957
- No wonder the world was going to hell when a grown man pranced around in a monkey suit, brown-nosing dames who made a big deal out of ordering a belt of booze! — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 78, 1963
- “Nick,” she said when I had finished, “six months ago you were just another brownnosing honor student. What happened?” — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 334, 1993
- Now you’re gonna brown nose me? Don’t be doing me any more favors, Pancho. — Airheads, 1994
- [J]ust do your music and leave it to a bit of mystiqure and charisma, rather than trying to brown nose every individual member of an audience. — X-Ray, p. 20, April 2003
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