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LINGUISTICS & CULTURE
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LINGUISTICS & CULTURE
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PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS & CULTURE |
| Autor: | Marcio Osorio |
| E-mail: | rec165701@yahoo.com.br |
| Data: | 17/JAN/2006 3:22 AM |
| Assunto: | suck up to |
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Just taking a whack at it with whatever English my ESL mind can handle. "John sucks up to his boss a lot" "... kisses up..." Couldn't help thinking of, "John does a lot of sucking up to his boss" as a likely translation. You can substitute "sucking up to" for "kissing up to" and find out all roads lead to Rome. I just couldn't word an example with the "brown nose" verb Dale suggested because I really never used it. For one to get his nose brown, one would have to stick his/her nose deep up the boss's Hershey highway. For most politicians getting a bill or a project approved may involve some or a lot of sucking up to/kissing up to. |
English Made in Brazil -- English, Portuguese, & contrastive linguistics
suck up to – Giovanne 16/JAN/2006, 8:15 PM suck up to – Dale/RS 
16/JAN/2006, 9:52 PM to Dale- to butter in - suck up to – Ricky 18/JAN/2006, 2:28 PM to Dale- to butter in - suck up to – Ana M 19/JAN/2006, 6:06 AM to Ana M - butter up - suck up to – Ricky 19/JAN/2006, 11:05 AM to Ana M - butter up - suck up to – Josi 19/JAN/2006, 12:04 PM to Josi -to butter up - suck up to – Ricky 19/JAN/2006, 1:33 PM to Josi -to butter up - suck up to – Ana M 21/JAN/2006, 2:04 AM to Ana M – Ricky 23/JAN/2006, 3:06 PM 
suck up to – Marcio Osorio 17/JAN/2006, 3:22 AM