get in (someone's) good books

To ingratiate oneself to someone; to curry favor with someone. Flattery won't work; the only way of getting in his good books is through hard work.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Benedykt	be-NE-dikt	Polish
Jiang	-	Chinese
Chesed	-	Hebrew
Aditya	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Nepali, Indonesian
Diamantina	-	Greek
Kalyana	-	Indian, Telugu