Vocabulary
Form
to curry favour (with); to play up (to); to cozy up (to); to butter up
verb
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Example sentences
その係長(かかりちょう)は勤勉(きんべん)な男(おとこ)ではないが、上役(うわやく)にとり入(はい)る術(じゅつ)を心得(こころえ)ているから、早(はや)く昇進(しょうしん)するのだ。
The chief clerk is not a hardworking man, but gets ahead rapidly because he knows how to curry favor with his superiors.
あの男(おとこ)は社長(しゃちょう)に取(と)り入(はい)るのがうまい。
That man knows how to get on the president's good side.