Judd probably deleted your post because it was pure brown-nose. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » A note on comments.] Reference
WALLACE: So we can't kind of, you know, brown-nose for the next four days. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2004] Reference
Oh, yeah, and if my dad liked me as much as the neighbor kid who's a 'brown-nose'. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Cara Barker: What Our Kids Have To Teach Us About Happiness] Reference
Peter Lawford's married to one of Jack's sisters, and he's Frank's brown-nose contact. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
They become middle managers very quickly because they figure ou t how to brown-nose and do it vigorously and with gusto. From Wordnik.com. [Illegals, Legals and Darkness] Reference
As long as police and judiciary are promoted based on their ability to brown-nose the elite, things will continue as they are. From Wordnik.com. [The Wolf Who Cried Boy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
If she wanted an extra change, she'd have to beg and brown-nose the nannychka, as the orderly was addressed by the screaming women. From Wordnik.com. [Julia Gorin: Americans Want Universal Access to Graveyards] Reference
I've heard you speak a few a times now and don't take this as a "brown-nose, fan-boy" comment, but you have a great speaking voice. From Wordnik.com. [New NPR piece airing tonight] Reference
Anyhow, bidding for the order of the brown-nose, he proclaimed that this "reconnection" required a European programme of prosperity and solidarity. From Wordnik.com. [We must modernise…] Reference
Students get desperate and want to know they're going to pass, so they show up and brown-nose to make up for all the time they haven't been in my office all semester long. From Wordnik.com. [In which I prepare a manuscript not for publication.] Reference
"Then the successful ones brown-nose their way for years further up the administrative food chain, and finally what you're left with is a political, sycophantic psychopath in charge of everything.". From Wordnik.com. [Save Our Schools] Reference
Following up on my answer to mommybrain and SteveNS about the reasons reporters brown-nose so much, what makes Lapdogs such a great book is that Boehlert sticks to the behavior and not the motives. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » FDL Book Salon — Lapdogs, Pt. I] Reference
Yes, I know you and Brown are a pair of smart arses, and don't like taking advice from anyone not a brown-nose of your team, but, in your interest in avoiding the ignominity that history will remember you as guilty of, I thought you may be interested. From Wordnik.com. [[sonus] understanding issues: part 5] Reference
Then only the brown-nose or malicious supervisors got you to do it …. so they decided that drastic action was needed … … they went for …. a RE-BRAND and a RE-LAUNCH … so CPD became PDR (Personal Development Review .. or Pointless Document Revamped). From Wordnik.com. [“Could Try Harder” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
This is our government destroying not just a state but our country while they brown-nose the environmentalists. From Wordnik.com. [Nevada Appeal - Top Stories] Reference
Just wait, in the next column some Obama staffers would have contacted Brooks "corrected" him and he will print another brown-nose job. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference
Your pathetic blogs and that new propaganda newspaper gem aren't helping your bold quest to brown-nose your way into a political career. From Wordnik.com. Reference
And of course, the infamous "brown-nose" comment that many people get labeled with when they go out of their way to improve an organization. From Wordnik.com. [EarthWeb IT Management News & Views] Reference
More common, however, than any of these brown phrases is brown-nose ` a toady who wins favor by paying very close attention to his superior's bottom. '. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 1] Reference
There's an important difference. tombaker Says: saccharine little brown-nose. how's that for not kow-towing to political correctness????? pastcaring Says. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
31 December 2010 2:00AM drumbuie1: Go to the right public school followed by Oxford or Cambridge, then play golf with and brown-nose the 'right' people - you'll be a shoo-in. From Wordnik.com. [Let's put women first in 2011 | Mervyn Davies] Reference
Don't brown-nose (human beings have hyper-sensitive hypocrisy detectors), but do look for the good things about your supervisor you might not be seeing and work to respect them. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Higher Ed] Reference
First we have the young tyke 'goose-stepping' into a fancy dress party complete with his brown-nose cronies and brown-shirt attire complete with his Nazi club badge, the swastika. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
Right.www. telegraph.co.uk Fortunately, Chamberlain had one more trick-up-his-sleeve; because he didn't waste his time in the gym or carousing with senior officers to brown-nose, HE WAS. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
They aren’t graded for their ability to brown-nose. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » The last gasps of the 109th Congress.] Reference
He’s a brown-nose in other words, and doesn’t really believe in democracy. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Money for Nothing, and Votes for Free] Reference
Why don’t you start trying to brown-nose unbelievable again, and let’s see how far it gets you this time. (. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bush on Ken Lay: He Was ‘A Good Guy’] Reference
A fair number of Jews do, undeniably, hold a place of power in an industry which Simmons’ has an evergrowing stake in and there is no nose quite like a brown-nose. From Wordnik.com. [Hip-hop mogul to visit Israel | Jewschool] Reference
That is how the game is played and I’m sure if we looked at the records of those male supervisors you’d find plenty of slackers or ‘gung-ho’ supervisors who brown-nose just as much…. From Wordnik.com. [Senate to Consider Equal Pay Bill - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Littell's brown-nose job on Carlos was better. From Wordnik.com. [American Tabloid]
Her mother really did brown-nose for a living. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference
3) It’s government doesn’t grovel and brown-nose the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she’s a ‘bigot’ with ‘tampons in her ears.’] Reference
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