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sidle up

v. ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She is playing up to the chairman" [syn: cozy up, cotton up, shine up, play up, suck up]

Usage examples of "sidle up".

Ugly ambulant plants sidle up and press their tumid calyces against me, dusting my liners with pollen.

And one could not sidle up to her, dragging one foot and saying shucks.

You can only sidle up to it, looking past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world.

Or were individual scorpions hired with large amounts of, oh, whatever it-was scorpions ate, to sidle up to selected leading snakes at night and sting them?

Or were individual scorpions hired with large amounts of, oh, whatever it was scorpions ate, to sidle up to selected leading snakes at night and sting them?

Well, very shortly I shall have to sidle up to Tom and break the news to him.

He could sidle up the rungs, bit by bit, until his head and shoulders were above the top of the elevator, but at that point he was stuck.

Only to return as soon as his back was turned, to sidle up beside the head villain.

Using the narrow space behind the rank of chairs, I sidle up inch by inch to where the President and his counterpart are seated.