Wednesday, 28 March, the day began with freezing temperatures and the water was frozen in the birdbath. Temperatures reached the 70ºF / 20ºC today and it was the most active day for animals in the birdbath.
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The BROWN-NOSER. The Brown-noser is a flatterer who has taken flattery just a bit too far.
Flattery isn't bad. As a matter of fact, Dale Carnegie in his book, How to Win Friends and Influence People,explains how you should start every encounter with just a little bit of flattery. It is when flattery is obviously excessive that we consider it brown-nosing.
Variations:
ass kisser
ass licker
bootlicker
crawler
fawning
flunky
groveler
hanger-on
kowtowing
lackey
lickspittle
suck up
toady
yes man
apple-polisher
sycophant
sycophant (pluralsycophants)
One who uses compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
