"butter someone's biscuit" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: butters someone's biscuit [present, singular, third-person], buttering someone's biscuit [participle, present], buttered someone's biscuit [participle, past], buttered someone's biscuit [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} butter someone's biscuit (third-person singular simple present butters someone's biscuit, present participle buttering someone's biscuit, simple past and past participle buttered someone's biscuit)
  1. (slang) To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy. Tags: slang Synonyms: float someone's boat
    Sense id: en-butter_someone's_biscuit-en-verb-qKIwPWIG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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