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Shine up   /ʃaɪn əp/   Listen
Shine up

verb
1.
Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior.  Synonyms: cotton up, cozy up, play up, sidle up, suck up.






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"Shine up" Quotes from Famous Books



... Work is done; Two, three, Jubilee; Four, five, Ducks are alive; Six, seven, Stars shine up in heaven; Eight, nine, Queen, Queen Caroline, Wash your face in turpentine, ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... chance! There's still a few dames that think the old man isn't so darn unattractive! I'm glad I've ducked all that woman-game since I've been married but——Be switched if sometimes I don't feel tempted to shine up to some girl that has sense enough to take life as it is; some frau that doesn't want to talk Longfellow all the time, but just hold my hand and say, 'You look all in, honey. Take it easy, and don't ...
— Main Street • Sinclair Lewis

... elms and yellow reed-flags in the sun, Look on quite grave:- the sunlight flecks his side; And links of bindweed-flowers round him run, And shine up doubled with him in the tide. I'M nearly splitting, But nature seems like seconding his pride, And thinks that his ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... flight of steps running upwards must be discovered at once, and Mr. Haydon gave a low murmur as they heard a party of searchers gather at the foot of the stairs. Up to this moment Jack and his father had stood in complete darkness, but now a faint glimmer of light began to shine up from below, and they knew that the flare of their pursuers' torches was being reflected along the ...
— Jack Haydon's Quest • John Finnemore

... her dressing-table to shine up his face in honor of me! A shiny complexion is considered to be a great beauty among the negroes! The dear old man! He was very bent and very old; and looked like one of the logs that he used to bring in for the fire—a log from some hoary, lichened tree whose life was long since past. ...
— The Story of My Life - Recollections and Reflections • Ellen Terry



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