10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KEEP SOMEONE SWEET»
Discover the use of
keep someone sweet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
keep someone sweet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... all possible prizes or rewards. sweep someone off their feet: see FOOT. sweep
something under the carpet: see CARPET. sweet keep someone sweet keep
someone well disposed towards yourself, especially by favours or bribery.
informal ...
2
Heinemann English Dictionary
3 having or showing a pleasant disposition: She is a sweet girl. swell Phrases
keep someone sweet (informal) to stay in favour with someone. sweet on (
informal) fond of. • sweet noun 1 a small piece of food which contains a large
amount of ...
3
Oxford Thesaurus of English
someone's boots, fall all over, rub up the right way, keep someone sweet, sweet-
talk, soft-soap, butter up; N.Amer. brown-nose; vulgar slang lick/kiss someone's
arse; archaic blandish. 2 he was busily courting public attention: seek, try to
obtain ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
4 (the sweet) archaic or literary the sweet part or element of something: you have
had the bitter, now comes the sweet. 2(sweets) the pleasures or delights found in
something: the sweets of office. – phrases keep someone sweet informal keep ...
5
The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
... the crossroads grease someone's palm feather your own nest on the fiddle line
your pockets every man has his price put in the nips rob someone blind salt the
books stick to someone's fingers sticky fingers keep someone sweet on the take ...
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Colour Oxford Thesaurus
bribe. verb they tried to bribe the police: buy off, pay off, suborn; informal grease
someone's palm, keep someone sweet, square; Brit. informal nobble. noun he
accepted a bribe: inducement; informal backhander, pay-off, kickback, sweetener
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Oxford Dictionaries,, Maurice Waite, 2011
infusion. 3 mixture, mix, blend, combination, amalgam, cocktail. bribe v. buy off,
pay off, suborn; informal grease someone's palm, keep someone sweet, square;
Brit. informal nobble. n. inducement; informal bung, backhander, pay-off, kickback
, ...
8
Handbook of NLP: A Manual for Professional Communicators
... poking around/one's nose in feathers ruffled swallow pride (left a) sour taste
detect a whiff keep his/her nose out bitter experience devour smell a rat keep (
someone) sweet experience think (about it, things through) process motivate
change ...
9
A thousand years of
sweet: a semantic and cultural study
... on Prince William. Could he be sweet on Richard Branson's daughter, Holly?" (
The Editor (guardian magazine) Aug.6 1999 5). To Keep (Someone) Sweet A
popular circumlocution is to keep (someone) sweet, 'to win (or buy) their favour': "
It ...
No wining and dining in the Samos style to keep someone sweet. No one gave
him any leeway and he saw no reason to give it to others. Customers knew they
could depend on him to supply exactly what they wanted. But in exchange for this
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