other ways to say butter someone up

Sure, here are 200 other ways to say “butter someone up”:

1. Grease the wheels
2. Sweet-talk
3. Flatter
4. Stroke their ego
5. Shower with compliments
6. Praise profusely
7. Lay it on thick
8. Schmooze
9. Brown-nose
10. Fawn over
11. Flatter shamelessly
12. Gush over
13. Suck up to
14. Soft-soap
15. Charm
16. Cajole
17. Sway with flattery
18. Make nice
19. Sweeten up
20. Court favor
21. Coax
22. Woo
23. Fawn upon
24. Grovel
25. Lay it on with a trowel
26. Slather with compliments
27. Adulate
28. Sycophant
29. Ingratiate
30. Flannel
31. Build up
32. Use honeyed words
33. Stroking their feathers
34. Overpraise
35. Blandish
36. Lay on the charm
37. Snow
38. Fawn
39. Pander
40. Lick someone’s boots
41. Smooth-talk
42. Eulogize
43. Glorify
44. Fulsome praise
45. Gild the Lily
46. Soften up
47. Win over
48. Press the flesh
49. Make a fuss of
50. Soften the blow
51. Smear with praise
52. Sugarcoat
53. Melt their heart
54. Honey up
55. Sing their praises
56. Overstate their virtues
57. Make much of
58. Get on their good side
59. Be all over someone
60. Gush
61. Compliment excessively
62. Purr over
63. Turn on the charm
64. Smooth over
65. Persuade with compliments
66. Fawn over
67. Inveigle
68. Toot their horn
69. Stroke their hair
70. Pet their ego
71. Stroke their back
72. Use honeyed phrases
73. Heap on praise
74. Bask in their glory
75. Shower them with adoration
76. Overdo the compliments
77. Lard them with flattery
78. Talk them up
79. Pour on the praise
80. Suck up
81. Butter them up like a biscuit
82. Charm offensive
83. Overhype
84. Pour it on thick
85. Smother with praise
86. Gild the Lily
87. Overemphasize their qualities
88. Be lavish with praise
89. Make someone’s day
90. Inflate their ego
91. Work the charm
92. Be syrupy sweet
93. Lay it on with a shovel
94. Slather with flattery
95. Sugar them up
96. Be overly complimentary
97. Dote upon
98. Make them feel special
99. Drown them in compliments
100. Wrap them in flattery
101. Dance attendance on
102. Make much of
103. Overpraise
104. Soft-soap
105. Sweeten the pot
106. Put on the charm
107. Make someone’s head swell
108. Talk up
109. Soften them up
110. Puff up their ego
111. Be a smooth talker
112. Wax lyrical
113. Smother with kindness
114. Be sycophantic
115. Turn up the charm
116. Play up to
117. Make their day
118. Build them up
119. Use honeyed phrases
120. Flatter to deceive
121. Use flattery as a weapon
122. Be cloyingly sweet
123. Be overly fawning
124. Bathe them in flattery
125. Be obsequious
126. Be ingratiating
127. Be slyly flattering
128. Be subtly ingratiating
129. Puff up their ego
130. Be a sycophant
131. Be a flatterer
132. Lay it on with a trowel
133. Be an apple-polisher
134. Be a toady
135. Be a bootlicker
136. Be a yes-man
137. Be a brown-noser
138. Be a flunkey
139. Be a flatterer
140. Be a groveler
141. Be a truckler
142. Be a kowtower
143. Be a minion
144. Be a lickspittle
145. Be a sniveler
146. Be a stooge
147. Be a suck-up
148. Be a time-server
149. Be a hanger-on
150. Be a parasite
151. Be a sponger
152. Be a leech
153. Be a moocher
154. Be a sponge
155. Be a freeloader
156. Be a bottom-feeder
157. Be a user
158. Be a climber
159. Be a social climber
160. Be a ladder-climber
161. Be a bootlicker
162. Be a brownnoser
163. Be a suck-up
164. Be a kiss-up
165. Be a fawner
166. Be a groveler
167. Be a flunky
168. Be a yes-man
169. Be a doormat
170. Be a pushover
171. Be a soft touch
172. Be a mark
173. Be a patsy
174. Be a sap
175. Be a chump
176. Be a mug
177. Be a stooge
178. Be a tool
179. Be a lackey
180. Be a minion
181. Be a puppet
182. Be a marionette
183. Be a pawn
184. Be a dupe
185. Be a fall guy
186. Be a scapegoat
187. Be a whipping boy
188. Be a yes-person
189. Be a conformist
190. Be a follower
191. Be a yes-woman
192. Be a flunkey
193. Be a sycophant
194. Be a toady
195. Be a brownnose
196. Be a teacher’s pet
197. Be a suck-up
198. Be a kiss-up
199. Be a fawner
200. Be a groveler