📚 Butter up, phrasal verb. ❓ Definition (informal • butter someone up, butter up someone): Flatter or praise someone as a means of gaining their help or support. ❗️ Examples: 1. Don't try and butter me up in order to get privileged information. 2. ‘Magic Valley's industrial dairies try to butter us up with sweet talk and promises,’ the ad begins, ‘but the reality is as different as milk and molasses.’ 3. His strategy now is to frustrate Dookeran, muzzle Yetming and see if Jack can be buttered up. 4. ‘See, he phones people just to say hello, but he's only buttering you up so he can ask you favours later,’ he continued. 5. And if so, buttering them up in preparation for what? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic