ingratiate oneself with

ingratiate oneself with someone

to work oneself into someone's favor. Why do you have to ingratiate yourself with everyone? Don't you know how to be just plain friends? She was very obvious in her effort to ingratiate herself with the boss.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Thelma	THEL-mə	English
Yocheved	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Jadvyga	-	Lithuanian
TorbjØRg	-	Norwegian
Iustinus	-	Late Roman
Elisa	e-LEE-zah (Italian, German), E-lee-sah (Finnish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish, English