溜须拍马 meaning in English
[口语] fawn on; toady to; shamelessly flatter;lick sb.'s boots; suck up to sb
Examples
- Eg : by being nice to the boss , john was working an angle to get a promotion
通过对老板溜须拍马，约翰想得到晋升。 - All the toady news
净写一些溜须拍马的报道。 - The singer was surrounded by the usual crowd of lackeys and hangers - on
那个歌手让那帮总是溜须拍马、前呼拥的人给围住了 - The funny thing is if he worked as hard at his job as he does at buttering up people , he ' d have a better chance to get what he ' s after
有趣的是，要是他干活也能像他溜须拍马那样下功夫的话，他想得到提升的机会就会更多。 - Example ： other employees didn ' t like mr . jones and believed that his recent promotion was more the result of his apple polishing than his actual achievements
员工们不喜欢琼斯先生，大家认为他近来的提升更多是因为他会溜须拍马，而不是工作业绩。