curry favor

Etymology
Originally from a French poem , written in the early 1300s; Fauvel was a conniving stallion, and the play was a satire on the corruption of social life. The name Fauvel points to the, another sense of meaning the class of wild animals whose coats are at least partly brown, and the medieval belief that a fallow horse was a symbol of deceit and dishonesty. The phrase curry Fauvel, then, referred to the horse, and was altered (as ) by later speakers to curry favor.

Verb

 * 1)  To seek to gain favor by flattery or attention.

Translations

 * Burmese:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: een wit voetje halen,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: sich einschmeicheln, sich anbiedern, sich einschleimen
 * Japanese: 機嫌を取る, 胡麻をする
 * Maori: whakaporepore
 * Russian: ,
 * Turkish: