گزارش خطا در معنی کلمه 'curry favor'
برای اصلاح خطاهایی که در معانی است، کافی است بر روی آیکن
کلیک کنید. برای وارد کردن معانی جدید در انتها صفحه در قسمت
'معانی جدید'
معانی خود را وارد کرده و بر روی دکمه
'ارسال'
کلیک کنید
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general::
Seek gain or advancement by fawning or flattery, as in Edith was famous for currying favor with her teachers. This expression originally came from the Old French estriller fauvel, "curry the fallow horse," a beast that in a 14th-century allegory stood for duplicity and cunning. It came into English about 1400 as curry favel?? that is, curry (groom with a currycomb) the animaland in the 1500s became the present term.
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