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"suck up to" Definitions
  1. (intr, adverb
  2. to flatter for one's own profit; toady

78 Sentences With "suck up to"

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This doesn't mean you have to suck up to the boss.
I think Leslie, you know I'm going to suck up to Leslie.
So, they clearly played the song just to suck up to Wisconsin voters.
Plus, they can garner the bad reputation of being a suck up to senior employees. 
If I'd wanted to suck up to politicians for no money I would have become a journalist.
Surely, he shouldn't have tried to suck up to Trump in an attempt to save his job.
Our photog gave him what would've been the right answer to suck up to NYC voters. #BlownOpportunity
The awards, access, and ability to suck-up to IRS encourages firms to aggressively pursue these contracts.
To survive and thrive, Pompeo will have to both stand up and suck up to the President.
By that he meant if you think you can just suck up to the boss, you're wrong.
Employees complain about parking, suck up to their boss, and grumble about their pay and budget cuts.
We're told it's a jab at black people in politics who suck up to Trump ... think Ben Carson.
The purpose is not to suck up to the boss; it's to draw the audience into sycophantic agreement.
People will start sucking up to her — in the same way they used to suck up to you.
He was campaigning vainly for the Republican presidential nomination, saw Trump clearly and didn't suck up to him.
Her toadies and allies of convenience are unsure where the power lies now, who best to suck up to.
Some people suck up to their boss and call it managing up, but that isn't the case at all.
So he's mostly been spending his time trying to suck up to prominent conservatives and mumbling unconvincingly about free speech.
How much longer will you sell their souls and continue to suck up to the threats of the National Rifle Association?
Though he supported Remain in the referendum, he did so more to suck up to David Cameron than out of any conviction.
To appease the situation, she decides to suck up to Alexis in order to guarantee Jake a meeting with a Hollywood exec.
I realize that the ex-wife might have taken my gesture as an attempt to suck up to her, which it wasn't.
If you are the sort of person I normally suck up to, you should know that my sucking up takes no breaks.
He is one of the few bloggers about publishing who doesn't suck up to the industry, nor does he particularly gild the lily.
He discloses American intelligence to deflect attention from unflattering stories, suck up to people he wants to impress, or simply on a whim.
The suck-up to China that has been going on for so long has been a complete disaster and we need to reverse it.
She respects the rules, and polices those who don't, behavior that would usually brand her as a suck-up, to be mocked and despised.
Beyond pure greed and a desire to suck up to the 0.1 percent, it's hard to see any real-world logic behind this move.
Everyone who was watching dropped their jaws; this was a bombshell acknowledgement that the president had every reason to suck up to Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Meanwhile, it had burned credibility with core users like DJs by removing their music over dubious copyright claims while trying to suck up to the labels.
America is still in a perilous place, and even a weakened Trump can torment migrants, pack the courts, wreck the environment and suck up to tyrants.
And let's be clear about the kind of people you get in bed with when you do the old-fashioned suck-up-to-donors fundraising approach.
I have worked with businesses extensively, but I don't think that means that you have to suck up to them every step of the way. Yeah.
TC: For founders and other investors looking to suck up to you as you settle in (har), what do you like to do in your free time?
In some cases, maybe it's better if there's tension in an interview, more so than if I'd just found some way to suck up to Lou Reed.
The memo about the July phone call between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shows how world leaders can try to suck up to Trump.
Now that he knows how to blackmail, he also knows how to earn a shred more respect: Have a bougie name and suck up to Logan Roy. Cheers!
He can lie to them, hurt them with tariffs, make a mockery of their values, suck up to freedom-hating dictators they once distrusted, and they'll stick with him.
Indeed, so extravagant is IBM's willingness to suck up to the Chinese that even the Obama administration itself might have worried about them, and voiced security concerns about their activities.
And at a moment when the party is finally abandoning the New Democratic formula—suck up to big business and the military-industrial complex, pander to white supremacy, and win!
What's more, Christie blunts what could be an effective attack line with a desperate attempt to suck up to Rubio and maybe, if he's really lucky, become his vice president.
During one exchange with Mr. Leissner, Mr. Low advised of the need to "suck up to" 443MDB officials, including sending "cakes" — that is to say, bribes, according to government filings.
The two buildings in Nanjing are expected to suck up to 25 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air each year and produce around 60 kg of oxygen each day.
Rich people who go out and collect the checks of their rich friends, so that they can suck up to a candidate in favor of access, favors, ambassadorships and the like.
But it also helps to suck up to the people with the highest social scores, giving them the best experiences, because their opinions count for more if they rate your experiences highly.
Many senators either tried to clumsily show off for the cameras, blatantly suck up to Zuckerberg, or ask long, cringe-worthy questions that sounded like grandparents checking out their first flip phone. Sen.
"Does the entire world have to suck up to the garbage Communist Party?" one commentator called Yip Lou Jie said in an online forum, LIHKG, which is used by protesters in Hong Kong.
"I don't think any billionaire ought to be able to do it, and I don't think people who suck up to billionaires in order to fund their campaigns ought to do it," Warren said.
That means the journalists onstage shouldn't (in theory) just suck up to the speakers and sing their praises — though that's all too often what happens — but rather should respectfully challenge their ideas and arguments.
Chuck's plan is to suck up to his father, drowning him in public praise while presenting him with an award, in an effort to convince him to keep his mouth shut to Dake and Connerty.
Then, all you need to complete your rapping Kendall costume is a white Oxford shirt, a bowtie, and a supreme lack of awareness while you suck up to your father with an ill-advised song about his greatness.
Choosing one of them would be seen as being just too much of a "suck up" to conventional advice, plus it would connect Trump too much to a GOP Congressional group that he's already successfully branded as losers.
Eugene, for example, is clearly past any point of redemption, but he's not nearly interesting or charismatic enough to entertain as a villain, so why spend half the penultimate episode's runtime showing him panic and suck up to Negan?
And Demi Lovato's Path to Fame was a shameless suck-up to its title star, in which your character creeps around kissing the "Cool for the Summer" singer's ass until she decides that, OK, you're not a total loser.
At some point leaders of the technology industry (including venture capital's industry organization) will need to do more than try to succor and suck up to the Trump administration and start advocating more aggressively for action from other corners.
"If campaigns are nothing more than billionaires and people who suck up to billionaires buying tens of millions of dollars of TV ads, then we're just not going to have any America where everybody gets an opportunity," she said.
The other is pugilistic, bullying, determined to punch down and suck up: punch down anyone who dares to cross President Donald Trump, even if their targets are acting for the sake of the United States ... and suck up to the President.
It's very freeing to actually ... I'm not trying to suck up to you, Kevin, but it actually is freeing to not be tethered to those metrics and things like that, because then I can have ideas that are very unusual.
Getting close to him requires sucking up to fewer people than it did with pre-Trump presidents: The most direct path might be to suck up to a cable-TV booker, get on one of ''the shows,'' say something nice about him and wait for the thank-you tweet.
We haven't got time to properly get into that, but I do think that that's a real shift in policy from where you saw the consensus and the foreign policy establishment, which is like, if you suck up to China and engage with them and whatever, they're going to get better on human rights, they're going to become more of a market economy, they're going to ... it's absolutely, totally wrong.
They have high market shares and concentrated ownership so that tycoons mainly benefit from their growth, cause addiction, censor free speech, do not censor free speech, are infiltrated by Russian spies, suck up to Chinese autocrats, do not pay customers for their data, give private data to third parties, refuse to give data to third parties, don't invest much, bully their critics, underpay workers, poach too many experts from universities, pay too little tax and corrupt politics.
For the most part she is powerful and very successful in her evil plans. Habu-Kuragen is Habuhime-Devil's number-one henchman. He acts cocky but gives up fighting easily. He's much rather suck up to Habuhime-Devil for approval, than win fights.
Back in the studio, Ina jokingly asked if she could break the big screen showing Ilda still inside the house. After the show, Julinda tells Mardiola that she nominated her. Mardiola replies that Julinda likes to "suck up" to save herself from the nomination. Julinda calls her short and criticises her for being married too early, causing Mardiola to rush towards her.
On April 2, 2018, Phillips left CNN to join ABC News as a "D.C.-based correspondent". On July 19, 2019, Phillips posted a tweet praising President Trump for "giving us [journalists] access on a regular basis and the ability to ask any question." Phillips came under attack by many who viewed the comment as being a "suck up" to the president.
Matičević was born in West Berlin to Croatian parents who were guest workers in West Germany. Following his parents' divorce, he lived with his mother in Berlin- Spandau. He was initially a trouble maker in childhood and would get in fistfights at school. He refused to join the school's theater group, feeling it was only for kids who were trying to "suck up" to the teachers.
Ken says hello to Bob, who is now loitering in the lobby. He shames him for sending food to Rogers mother's funeral, and for using a funeral as an opportunity to suck up to Roger and try to get himself noticed. He tells him to go back to his office and do some work, or otherwise people will think he has nothing to do. The Sheraton people show up for the first pass.
Thus, jobs are automatic in the game, even if the player will sometimes receive challenges and questions with different options to have more control over the sims' career performance. Advancing in a career still depends on mood and skills, but with the addition that relationships with colleagues/boss and even certain goals that have to be fulfilled. Players can control if the sims "Work Hard", "Take It Easy", "Suck Up To Boss", etc., thus affecting their performance.
The satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image portrayed Burnet as a cringing, fawning royalist ("lick, lick, smarm, smarm"), forever trying to suck up to the nearest available member of the Royal Family; one episode ended with the Burnet puppet singing a song about his love for the Queen Mother (before being pushed aside for Sandy Gall). The satirical magazine Private Eye referred to him as "Arslicker Burnet". Burnet was a supporter of Scottish football clubs Rangers and Partick Thistle.
After a Savior prisoner suddenly turns and begins attacking, Jared overpowers Henry and most of the prisoners make a run for it. After appearing to briefly hesitate over whether or not to help out Henry, Gregory chooses to join the Savior prisoners in running rather than staying to help with the situation at the Hilltop. In the episode "Worth," Gregory is revealed to have returned to the Sanctuary and the Saviors. Gregory tries to suck up to Simon again and actually stands up to him, causing Simon to change his mind about killing Gregory.
Amanda seems to be a complete "suck up" to their boss Max, and is the only person in Mad Style who calls him Max. She is allergic to hazelnuts and goats. Usually because of her plans of getting True fired backfire, many unfortunate things happen to her, such as her dress falling off while she is modeling it, and having to feed True and her friends ice cream in a chicken suit. In the episode "True Matchmaker", it is revealed that she (as well as Oscar) is addicted to a soap opera called Space Plantation.
Fadget, treats Ellie badly, forcing her to work long hours without a break, and tries to suck up to Grace when Grace visits the laundry to make up excuses to drag Ellie out of her work to talk to her. (These excuses often involve numerous unwashed chemises and precious silk handkerchiefs that need scrubbing from ink stains.) In the second book, Betrayal, Mrs. Fadget treats Ellie so badly she gets quinsey. While Grace is on a Captain Drake's ship, Mary Shelton cares for Ellie until Grace comes back with Lady Sarah.
When it first launched in January 2010, Mercedes Bunz, writing for The Guardian, said The Daily Caller was "setting itself up to be the conservative answer to The Huffington Post". According to Bunz, a year before the website launched, Carlson promoted it as "a new political website leaning more to the right than Politico and TalkingPointsMemo". However, at launch, he wrote a letter to readers that said it was not going to be a right-wing site. "We're not going to suck up to people in power, the way so many have," Carlson declared.
Lewson manages to sell the letter to Lloyd-James and the two of them visit Sir Edwin to persuade him to give the party's support to Lloyd-James. Tom and Patricia marry at midsummer and most of the characters attend the wedding. Grey and Morrison meet for the first time since 1955, Salinger is trying to suck up to the rather drunk Lord Canteloupe and even Sir Edwin becomes rather drunk and sentimental. A cigarette causes a fire and the firemen arrive right at the moment when Isobel Turbot and Mark Lewson take off in a sports car.
He is well liked by the residents of the apartment as he often brings them many gifts, he likewise respects the many adults found there as proper examples of maturity rather than people who suck up to him because of his status. He is very fond of Kuri to the point he is referred to as his "Daddy" by the residents which in turn causes them to call Yushi the "Mommy" much to his dismay. ; : :Akine is an easy-going resident in room 204, she goes to Takinodai High School and works as an exorcist at night in a hospital. "Akine Kuga" is the name she uses as a psychic.
He authored and published a book on themes on Awoism for which he came under severe criticism from other Awoists who saw the work as a crude attempt by an under-achiever to suck-up to Baba Awo. Still, Baba Awo (as Obafemi Awolowo was called) was fond of him and kept checking up on him. Indeed, Omoboriowo claimed in an interview with the Sun that Awolowo had said that of all the candidates in the '79 elections, he (Omoboriowo) was the only one who wasn't spurred by monetary desires. Expectedly though, his relationship with Awolowo (at least, politically) soured upon his decamp from the UPN.
For most of the night, Packer seems to be the most successful, until Dwight has Gabe spike Packer's beer with his asthma inhaler, which causes Packer to vomit. In "Test the Store", at the Sabre store opening, Dwight tasks Packer with playing the part of a sexual predator, much to Packer's chagrin. In a talking-head interview, Packer acknowledges that Dwight is out to get him, but that he is playing the "long game" and that as soon as he witnesses Dwight making a mistake he will "swoop in like a sexual predator". In "Last Day in Florida", Packer attempts to suck up to Dwight, now that Dwight is Vice President, but Dwight still holds him in contempt.
On the other hand, he has voiced anti-capitalist and even revolutionary socialist beliefs during his employment at Joe's Rostery and called George W. Bush a "[bleeping] fool" during a visit to The Boondocks, although these may have been more intended to spite his boss and suck up to known leftist Huey Freeman, respectively, than to express his actual views. During one series of three strips, he was known as "Johnny on Top, Folk Singer Singer For the Far Right", an extreme right-wing folk singer intended as a counterweight to other politically liberal/leftist folk singers. He wrote three songs; "Shoot the Hippie out of the Redwood Tree", "If You're not White, and You Talk Funny, We'll Drop Bombs Right on Your Bunny" (because camel didn't rhyme) and a pro oil spill song titled "Maybe Your Ducky Likes Swimming in Mucky". He has also been known as "Blind Bobby Z, Blues Singer for the Rich and Uptrodden" (also known as "Blind Jimmy Windthrop") for three strips, singing songs about taxation and Nordstroms.
White-power music on SDU meeting In June 2010, Almqvist was involved in an altercation with foreign comedian Soran Ismail known as the "Iron Bar Scandal" in which he and several other leading SD politicians had filmed themselves calling people "Babbe" (derogatory insult meaning foreigner), "whore", brandishing iron poles and finally leaving the scene after talking to arriving policemen and chortling about how easy it is to "suck up" to the police. In November 2012 the newspaper Expressen followed up the quarrel with Ismail, and could show unedited footage from the event, where Almqvist said that Ismail has a "behaviour like a babbe" (in Swedish, babbe is an invective word for an immigrant) and used epithets like "pussy". He also called a young Swedish woman "a little whore".Almqvist in attack SD has criticized Expressen for "cuttings and pastings" in the footage and that they do not want to show all the filmed material, which contrasts diametrically with the proven facts that SD had in fact manipulated the film and removed all traces of their actions.

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