Definitions for curry favor
cur·ry fa·vor

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1. curry favor, curry favour, court favor, court favourverb

   seek favor by fawning or flattery

   "This employee is currying favor with his superordinates"

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1. curry favorverb

   To seek to gain favor by flattery or attention.

2. Etymology: Originally from a French poem Roman de Fauvel, 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 fauve ('chestnut, reddish-yellow, or fawn'), another sense of fauve 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 flattering the horse, and was turned by later speakers into curry favor.

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1. curry favor

   To curry favor means to seek or gain favor from someone by flattery, servile behavior or ingratiating actions. It refers to attempts to win someone's approval, support or sympathy, often for personal advantage. It can be used in personal, social, or professional contexts.

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of curry favor in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of curry favor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of curry favor in a Sentence

1. Clay Travis:

   ESPN is so proud of them that they're sharing the clip themselves with all of their audience, it's next level stupidity, first of all, to compare Chinese genocide with American voting rights ID laws. But it's also making me wonder, with all that Disney has connection-wise with China, are they trying to curry favor with China by spreading Chinese talking points propaganda to the American sporting fan? It just blows my mind.

2. Ral Grijalva:

   The pay-go thing is an absurd idea now given the times and given what’s already been done to curry favor with corporate America, it’s a stupid rule. It is entirely counter-productive to progressive policy goals.

3. Kirk Hanson:

   Now that she is gearing up to run for president, the same potential exists for foreign governments to curry favor with her as a potential president of the United States, she can't recuse herself [if she becomes president].

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=curry favor
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Curry_Favor
3. ^ ChatGPT
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