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pour honey in one's ear

pour honey in one's ear phrase: to tell one something pleasing or flattering.

Phrase

pour honey in one's ear

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To tell one something pleasing or flattering.
    • I'm five yards away, and horribly jealous. He comes over and pours honey in my ear about how all those months back I said I couldn't play it and then I brought so much to it and I am faint from what I can't say.2010, Maureen Lipman, “A Little Night-Night Music”, in I Must Collect Myself ...Choice Cuts from a Long Shelf Life, Simon & Schuster
    • You knew you and I were perfect for each other. But he poured honey in your ear somewhere along the way and got you pregnant and then he started fucking up. And you know how that tore at me?2011, Doug Magee, Darkness All Around, Simon & Schuster, page 291

Forms of pour honey in one's ear

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Questions about pour honey in one's ear

What does pour honey in one's ear mean?
Pour honey in one's ear means to tell one something pleasing or flattering.
What part of speech is pour honey in one's ear?
Pour honey in one's ear is a phrase.

Words near pour honey in one's ear in the dictionary

  1. pour encourager les autres
  2. pour forth
  3. pour fuel on the fire
  4. pour gasoline on the fire
  5. pour good money after bad
  6. pour honey in one's ear
  7. pour honey into one's ear
  8. pour honey on
  9. pour in
  10. pour into
  11. pour oil on troubled waters

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