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dance attendance on
verb as in curry favor
Example Sentences
Servants dance attendance on this obstreperous youngster, whose haughtiness is no doubt inflamed by her cold, aristocratic mother and distracted military captain father.
She otherwise prides herself on a low-maintenance approach to red carpet preparations, dispensing with the retinue of stylists, groomers and assorted handlers who customarily dance attendance on the stars.
I was not at all disposed to dance attendance on them.
He began to dance attendance on his crew as if they were patients and he their doctor.
You've just got back from the other end of the town, tired and hungry, and off you run again, without eating a morsel, to dance attendance on her.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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