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Home / Idiom / 阿谀奉承

flattering and fawning (idiom) · sweet-talking

阿谀奉承
ē yú fèng chéng
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Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
act as the yes-man · flatter and toady · stoop to flattery · pay (or make) one's court to · lay it on with a trowel · curry favor with · flatter and fawn on · butter up a person · adulate阿谀逢迎ē yú féng yíngto pander to sb's whims阿其所好ē qí suǒ hàoto flatter谄媚chǎn mèisuck (or lick) ulcers and piles of another person · to lickspit · sycophancy吮痈舐痔shǔn yōng shì zhìto smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants · to toady · boot-licking溜须拍马liū xū pāi mǎto bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning · bending and scraping to curry favor卑躬屈膝bēi gōng qū xī
Antonyms
upright and plainspoken刚正不阿gāng zhèng bù ē
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