suck up tosomeone
phrasal verbwithsuckverbuk/sʌk/us/sʌk/
informaldisapprovingtotryto make someone inauthorityapproveof you by doing and saying things that willpleasethem:
"Why do youthinkheofferedto take all thatworkhome?" "Oh, he's justsuckingup to theboss."
Praising insincerely or too eagerly
- backhanded compliment
- bootlicker
- bow and scrapeidiom
- crawler
- creep
- fawn
- flummery
- glad-handing
- grovel
- hagiographic
- idealization
- massagesomeone'segoidiom
- obsequious
- people pleaser
- play up tosomeone
- schmooze
- slobber
- toady
- toadying
- unctuous