Sentence examples for buttering up from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of butter up
Djordjevic got rid of his debt while buttering up Markovic.
To some people in the newsroom, his enthusiasm seemed indistinguishable from buttering up superiors.
Buttering up people you want something out of is an artform.
"Everyone knows MOHAMED ELBARADEI has been buttering up the Nobel people for years"?
"You have to set limits, because you can blow a fortune" buttering up teachers and instructors.
That is one reason why George Osborne is buttering up the Chinese with potentially costly blandishments.
Behind this week's exercise in buttering-up and scolding is a broader tension in the two countries' approaches to one another.
In last week's comments, we discussed Brown's buttering-up of Hector and whether it was an attempt to send him over to ITV.
Tony Blair found buttering-up backbenchers a bore so he employed people at Number 10 whose job it was to do it for him.
The breakfast's host, Councilman Kendall Stewart, praised Mr. Bloomberg, but his introduction was not the usual buttering-up heard in political speeches.
Mr Romney would take a more hawkish line abroad, with more criticism of enemies and more buttering-up of old allies, though a war-weary America would be no more likely to get involved in new conflicts.
