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to butter up
[phrase form: butter]
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to compliment someone to gain something in return
Exemplo
The employee was always buttering up the manager to get favorable assignments.
The salesman was skilled at buttering up customers to make more sales.
He tried buttering up his friend with compliments to borrow his car.
Instead of buttering up the professor, focus on studying for the exam.