SOME say it’s not what you know but who you know that matters when you want to get ahead in life. This has led some to pull out all the stops when they meet someone important. You could say that they are trying to “curry favour” with them. It’s an interesting idiom, “to curry favour,” you would be forgiven to think that the origin of the phrase has something to do with food but you would be wrong. Read full story
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