词汇 | glad-handing |
释义 | glad-handing noun[ U ] informaluk /ˈɡlædˌhænd.ɪŋ/ us /ˈɡlædˌhænd.ɪŋ/ being very friendly to people you have not met before, as a way of trying to get an advantage: (为了得到好处而表现出的)假热情,假友好 political glad-handing政治场合上礼节性的热情友好 Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery grovel grovelling grovellingly hagiographic obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone schmooze sycophantically toady toadying truckle unctuous Related wordglad-hand Examples of glad-handingglad-handing Sit down and have some lunch, then go round and do the glad-handing afterwards. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we are to tackle the issue of veterans and their problems, we must treat the individual case as well as glad-handing the majority of people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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