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stroke

tv. & in. to flatter someone; to soothe and comfort someone. She “strokes” everybody to keep them on her side during the bad times.

See:

• a stroke of luck
• arrive (somewhere) (up)on the stroke of
• arrive on the stroke of some time
• at a (single) stroke
• at one stroke
• be in the short strokes
• broad strokes
• different strokes
• Different strokes for different folks
• down to the short strokes
• finishing touch
• have a stroke
• in broad strokes
• in one stroke
• Little strokes fell great oaks
• no accounting for tastes, there's
• not do a stroke (of work)
• put off stride
• put one off one's stride
• short strokes
• stroke
• stroke ego
• stroke of business
• stroke of fortune
• stroke of genius
• stroke of luck
• stroke of work