fawn on

Synonyms

flatter cajole bootlick butter up curry favor brown-nose

Examples

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers. Fidel Castro

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them. D. H. Lawrence

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals. Diogenes of Sinope

Better a dog fawn on you than bite you. Dutch Proverb

Better a dog fawn on you than bark at you. Scottish Proverb

Words in the phrase

fawn on

Close letter words and terms

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