buttering up
献殷勤,拍马屁,献殷勤的人,拍马屁的人
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Definitions
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- : the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
- : this substance, processed for cooking and table use.
- : any of various other soft spreads for bread: apple butter; peanut butter.
- : any of various substances of butterlike consistency, as various metallic chlorides, and certain vegetable oils solid at ordinary temperatures.
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- : to put butter on or in; spread or grease with butter.
- : to apply a liquefied bonding material to, as mortar to a course of bricks.
- : Metalworking. to cover with a preliminary surface of the weld metal.
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Phrases
- butter up
- butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
- bread and butter
- bread-and-butter letter
- know which side of bread is buttered
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Examples
All the downsides of popcorn but none of the good butter grease.
Company-provided data show that while travelers are booking almost twice as many remote stays as last year, home rentals in urban markets—Airbnb’s bread and butter—are still struggling.
A 19th-century Pennsylvania Dutch doctor’s manual instructs its reader to inscribe the square in butter smeared on a piece of bread and eat it as a cure for rabies.
The consumer piece was easier to fix—sell, don’t store, the butter.
It is the large quantities of salt and the sodium in the butters that are used to season them that can lead to high blood pressure.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.
“Butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.
Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.
By Amanda Woerner for Life by DailyBurn Butter is making a comeback—and it has nothing to do with Paula Deen.
The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.
You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.
The former, in its frozen state, somewhat resembled hard butter.
He shall eat butter and honey, that he may know to refuse the evil, and to choose the good.