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pour honey into one's ear

pour honey into one's ear is the alternative form of pour honey in one's ear.

Meaning of pour honey in one's ear

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

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Pour honey into one's ear is the alternative form of pour honey in one's ear.

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

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

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