Definition of "curry favor" []

• To seek to gain favor by flattery or attention. (verb)

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• "Instead, theyhoped to curry favor with this plague by flattery, by recognition of the'value 'of the press, its' importance, 'its' educational mission, 'and moresuch nonsense-as for the Jews, they took all this with a crafty smile andacknowledged it with sly thanks."
• "He believed the Sleepy Lagoon story to be fabricated on two levels: Coleman needing to justify his search for his father and his own latent homosexuality; Coleman wanting to curry favor with SLDC Latins by saying the killer was white — not the unfound Mexican gang members the leftist community asserted the slayers to be."
• "This Cecil Winwood, in order to curry favor with the Captain of the Yard, and thence the warden, the Prison Directors, the Board of Pardons, and the"