Curry favour
In most countries politicians promise to spend.
In Germany they curry favour by dangling fiscal rectitude.
Is "favour" a direct object of the verb "curry" in the idiom "curry favour"?
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Grammatically yes, but the idiom makes no literal sense as verb + object, or at least only in a kind of muddled-up reinterpretation, since the expression is based on a mishearing, as explained at The phrase 'Curry favour' - meaning and origin. uk) .
- Grammatically yes, but the idiom makes no literal sense as verb + object, or at least only in a kind of muddled-up reinterpretation, since the expression is based on a mishearing, as explained at The phrase 'Curry favour' - meaning and origin.
- uk) .
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Grammatically yes, but the idiom makes no literal sense as verb + object, or at least only in a kind of muddled-up reinterpretation, since the expression is based on a mishearing, as explained at The phrase 'Curry favour' - meaning and origin. (phrases.org.uk).
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