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make up to someone
phrasal verb with makeverbuk /meɪk/ us /meɪk/made | made
UKdisapproving
to be too friendly to someone or to praise them in order to get advantages for yourself: 讨好，奉承，巴结（某人）
Have you seen the disgusting way she makes up to the boss?你见过她巴结老板的丑态吗？
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
backhanded compliment
bootlicker
bow and scrapeidiom
crawler
creep
flummery
glad-handing
grovel
grovelling
grovellingly
obsequious
obsequiously
people pleaser
play up to someone
schmooze
sycophantically
toady
toadying
truckle
unctuous
make something up to someone | American Dictionary
make something up to someone
phrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/
to do something good for someone because the person has been good to you, or because you have been bad to the person:
You’ve done an awful lot for me, and I don’t know how I can ever make it up to you.
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