stroke ego

stroke someone's ego

Fig. to flatter and praise someone. If you have trouble with him, just take a few minutes and stroke his ego. You'll soon have him eating out of your hand.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Meadows	[medəuz]
Sankar	-	Indian, Malayalam, Bengali
Marija	-	Croatian, Slovene, Serbian, Macedonian, Lithuanian, Latvian
Nayeli	-	Native American, Zapotec
Goodrich	['gud.ritʃ]
Navin	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam