Sure, here are 200 other ways to say “butter someone up”:
- Grease the wheels
- Sweet-talk
- Flatter
- Stroke their ego
- Shower with compliments
- Praise profusely
- Lay it on thick
- Schmooze
- Brown-nose
- Fawn over
- Flatter shamelessly
- Gush over
- Suck up to
- Soft-soap
- Charm
- Cajole
- Sway with flattery
- Make nice
- Sweeten up
- Court favor
- Coax
- Woo
- Fawn upon
- Grovel
- Lay it on with a trowel
- Slather with compliments
- Adulate
- Sycophant
- Ingratiate
- Flannel
- Build up
- Use honeyed words
- Stroking their feathers
- Overpraise
- Blandish
- Lay on the charm
- Snow
- Fawn
- Pander
- Lick someone’s boots
- Smooth-talk
- Eulogize
- Glorify
- Fulsome praise
- Gild the Lily
- Soften up
- Win over
- Press the flesh
- Make a fuss of
- Soften the blow
- Smear with praise
- Sugarcoat
- Melt their heart
- Honey up
- Sing their praises
- Overstate their virtues
- Make much of
- Get on their good side
- Be all over someone
- Gush
- Compliment excessively
- Purr over
- Turn on the charm
- Smooth over
- Persuade with compliments
- Fawn over
- Inveigle
- Toot their horn
- Stroke their hair
- Pet their ego
- Stroke their back
- Use honeyed phrases
- Heap on praise
- Bask in their glory
- Shower them with adoration
- Overdo the compliments
- Lard them with flattery
- Talk them up
- Pour on the praise
- Suck up
- Butter them up like a biscuit
- Charm offensive
- Overhype
- Pour it on thick
- Smother with praise
- Gild the Lily
- Overemphasize their qualities
- Be lavish with praise
- Make someone’s day
- Inflate their ego
- Work the charm
- Be syrupy sweet
- Lay it on with a shovel
- Slather with flattery
- Sugar them up
- Be overly complimentary
- Dote upon
- Make them feel special
- Drown them in compliments
- Wrap them in flattery
- Dance attendance on
- Make much of
- Overpraise
- Soft-soap
- Sweeten the pot
- Put on the charm
- Make someone’s head swell
- Talk up
- Soften them up
- Puff up their ego
- Be a smooth talker
- Wax lyrical
- Smother with kindness
- Be sycophantic
- Turn up the charm
- Play up to
- Make their day
- Build them up
- Use honeyed phrases
- Flatter to deceive
- Use flattery as a weapon
- Be cloyingly sweet
- Be overly fawning
- Bathe them in flattery
- Be obsequious
- Be ingratiating
- Be slyly flattering
- Be subtly ingratiating
- Puff up their ego
- Be a sycophant
- Be a flatterer
- Lay it on with a trowel
- Be an apple-polisher
- Be a toady
- Be a bootlicker
- Be a yes-man
- Be a brown-noser
- Be a flunkey
- Be a flatterer
- Be a groveler
- Be a truckler
- Be a kowtower
- Be a minion
- Be a lickspittle
- Be a sniveler
- Be a stooge
- Be a suck-up
- Be a time-server
- Be a hanger-on
- Be a parasite
- Be a sponger
- Be a leech
- Be a moocher
- Be a sponge
- Be a freeloader
- Be a bottom-feeder
- Be a user
- Be a climber
- Be a social climber
- Be a ladder-climber
- Be a bootlicker
- Be a brownnoser
- Be a suck-up
- Be a kiss-up
- Be a fawner
- Be a groveler
- Be a flunky
- Be a yes-man
- Be a doormat
- Be a pushover
- Be a soft touch
- Be a mark
- Be a patsy
- Be a sap
- Be a chump
- Be a mug
- Be a stooge
- Be a tool
- Be a lackey
- Be a minion
- Be a puppet
- Be a marionette
- Be a pawn
- Be a dupe
- Be a fall guy
- Be a scapegoat
- Be a whipping boy
- Be a yes-person
- Be a conformist
- Be a follower
- Be a yes-woman
- Be a flunkey
- Be a sycophant
- Be a toady
- Be a brownnose
- Be a teacher’s pet
- Be a suck-up
- Be a kiss-up
- Be a fawner
- Be a groveler