curry favor

1. 1.

   seek favor by fawning or flattery

   “This employee is currying favor with his superordinates”

   Synonymscurry favourcourt favorcourt favour

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Questions about curry favor

What does curry favor mean?

curry favor means "seek favor by fawning or flattery".

What is another word for curry favor?

Close synonyms include curry favour, court favor, court favour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curry favor a common word?

curry favor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.