curry favour

How To Use curry favour In A Sentence

• Obviously, being one of the most famous Indians in the world didn't help Naipaul curry favour with Indian babudom bent on mindless application of rules. The Times of India
• He managed to curry favour with a succession of kings of England and was consort to the nine-year-old monarch Henry III.
• He's always trying to curry favour with the director by telling her how talented she is.
• A new-married man, when a pickthank friend of his, to curry favour, had showed him his wife familiar in private with a young gallant, courting and dallying, Anatomy of Melancholy
• Should she bait the audience or curry favour? Times, Sunday Times
• Politicians are eager to promote their "happy family" image to curry favour with voters.
• Afterwards, the marriage unconsummated, Catherine has numerous affairs and begins to curry favour with the army.
• Politicians are eager to promote their "happy family" image to curry favour with voters.
• Now my grandam does it because she is parcel blind by age, and whole blind by kindred; and my master, the poor Dominie, does it to curry favour, and have the fullest platter of furmity and the warmest seat by the fire. Kenilworth
• Politicians are eager to promote their "happy family" image to curry favour with voters.