curry favor

短语

求宠（于人）, 拍（人）马屁

发音

AU

词形变化

curried favor curries favor 三单 curries favor currying favor currying favor 现在分词 curried favor 过去式 curried favor 过去分词

别名

curry favour

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To seek to gain favor by flattery or attention.

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同义词 1

curry favour

上位词 7

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词源

Originally from a French poem Roman de Fauvel, written in the early 1300s; Fauvel was a conniving stallion, and the play was a satire on the corruption of social life. The name Fauvel points to the French fauve (“chestnut, reddish-yellow, or fawn”), another sense of fauve meaning the class of wild animals whose coats are at least partly brown, and the medieval belief that a fallow horse was a symbol of deceit and dishonesty. The phrase curry Fauvel, then, referred to currying (“combing”) the horse, and was altered (as folk etymology) by later speakers to curry favor.

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