ingratiate oneself

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  • Ingratiate Oneself — Infobox Album Name = Ingratiate Oneself Type = Album Artist = Faye Wong Background = Orange Released = December 1994 Recorded = Genre = Cantopop Length = Label = Cinepoly Producer = Reviews = Last album = Sky (1994) This album = Ingratiate… …   Wikipedia

  • ingratiate oneself — bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. → ingratiate …   English new terms dictionary

  • ingratiate oneself — CURRY FAVOUR WITH, cultivate, win over, get in someone s good books; toady to, crawl to, grovel to, fawn over, kowtow to, play up to, pander to, flatter, court; informal suck up to, rub up the right way, lick someone s boots. → ingratiate …   Useful english dictionary

  • ingratiate oneself — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. court, insinuate oneself, curry favor, get in with*; see compliment 1 , grovel , insinuate 2 …   English dictionary for students

  • ingratiate oneself — he has ingratiated himself with President Jiang by running ideological education campaigns Syn: curry favor with, cultivate, win over, get in good with; toady to, grovel to, fawn over, kowtow to, play up to, pander to, flatter, court, wheedle,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • ingratiate — oneself …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • ingratiate — ► VERB (ingratiate oneself) ▪ bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. DERIVATIVES ingratiating adjective ingratiation noun. ORIGIN from Latin in gratiam into favour …   English terms dictionary

  • ingratiate — [ɪn greɪʃɪeɪt] verb (ingratiate oneself) bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them. Derivatives ingratiating adjective ingratiatingly adverb ingratiation noun Origin C17: from L. in gratiam into favour …   English new terms dictionary

  • ingratiate — in•gra•ti•ate [[t]ɪnˈgreɪ ʃiˌeɪt[/t]] v. t. at•ed, at•ing to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, esp. by deliberate effort: to ingratiate oneself with the boss[/ex] • Etymology: 1615–25 in•gra′ti•at ing•ly, adv. in•gra… …   From formal English to slang

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