curry favor | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toseektogainfavorbyflatteryorattention.1854August 9,Henry D[avid] Thoreau,Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor and Fields,→OCLC:[…]always promising to pay, promising to pay, tomorrow, and dying today, insolvent; seeking tocurry favor, to get custom, by how many modes, only not state-prison offences;[…]1871–1872,George Eliot[pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, inMiddlemarch[…], volume(please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London:William Blackwood and Sons,→OCLC, book(please specify |book=I to VIII):Other people would say so, and would allege that he wascurrying favorwith Bulstrode for the sake of making himself important and getting on in the world.1896,Mark Twain[pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter1, inTom Sawyer, Detective:Poor old Uncle Silas—why, it’s pitiful, him trying tocurry favorthat way—so hard pushed and poor, and yet hiring that useless Jubiter Dunlap to please his ornery brother.1917,Upton Sinclair,The Profits of Religion[…]‎[1]:And what of those thousands and tens of thousands who join the church because it is a part of the regime of respectability, a way to make the acquaintance of the rich, tocurry favorand obtain promotion, to get customers if you are a tradesman, to extend your practice if you are a professional man?2017October 2, Julia Ioffe, Franklin Foer, “Did Manafort Use Trump to Curry Favor With a Putin Ally?”, inThe Atlantic‎[2]:[T]he full text of these exchanges, provided toThe Atlantic, shows that Manafort attempted to leverage his leadership role in the Trump campaign tocurry favorwith a Russian oligarch close to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.2019May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off theGame Of ThronesBattlefield (Newbies)”, inThe A.V. Club‎[3], archived fromthe originalon28 January 2021:Unlike Sansa, Daenerys can’t rely on her family name tocurry favor; unlike Jon or even Arya, she can’t regale the Northerners with tales of exploits, though that’s probably for the best when it comes to her “liberating” Yunkai and Meereen.

Examples:

EN: Do you curry favor with her?
ES: ¿Por favores?
EN: To curry favor with the board in hope of release.
ES: Para influir en el comité esperando que lo liberen.
EN: Did he give it to some wealthy citizen, merely to curry favor?
ES: ¿Lo ha dado a un ciudadano acomodado para obtener favores?
EN: No need to curry favor with him.
ES: - Mucho bien saldrá de ello.
EN: I was accusing you of inventing work in order to curry favor with our new captain. I apologize.
ES: Le acusaba de intentar ganarse a nuestro nuevo Capitán.
EN: He refused to unbend in public or to curry favor with the press.
ES: Se negó a corregirse en público o de ganarse el favor de la prensa.
EN: You could argue he done it to curry favor with the guards.
ES: Podrías decir que lo hizo para ganar el favor de los guardias.
EN: An attempt to curry favor with the future emperor and his sister.
ES: Es un intento para congraciarse con el futuro emperador y con su hermana.
ES: Es un intento para congraciarse con el futuro emperador y con su hermana.
EN: Don't try to curry favor.
ES: No sea estupido.
EN: Some overeager NIH lackey trying to curry favor.
ES: Algún súper-ávido lacayo de Sanidad intentando congraciarse.
EN: Otherwise parents of wait-listed students... would be sending me Hermes throws just to curry favor.
ES: Si no los padres de esos alumnos... intentarían sobornarme sólo para ganar mi apoyo.
EN: We need to curry favor.
ES: He de hacer favores.
EN: If you want to curry favor with me, avoid discussions of other men's testicles.
ES: Si quieres congraciarte conmigo, evita hablar de los testículos de otros.
EN: I won't rat out one of my sisters just to curry favor with Nationals, like Frannie did to Rebecca during Greek Week.
ES: Yo prefiero no traicionar a una hermana para agradar a las nacionales, como Frannie hizo con Rebecca la Semana Griega.
EN: They give gifts to their departed to curry favor with the deceased's soul, for, truly, the soul never dies.
ES: Les dan regalos a los desaparecidos para que hablen a favor del alma del difunto, ya que en realidad, el alma nunca muere.

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