讨好卖乖

to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)

to invite / to provoke / to demand or ask for / to send armed forces to suppress / to denounce or condemn / to marry (a woman) / to discuss or study

to get the desired outcome / to win favor by fawning on sb / to curry favor with / a fruitful outcome to reward one's labor

good / well / proper / good to / easy to / very / so / (suffix indicating completion or readiness) / (of two people) close / on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of / to have a tendency to / to be prone to

good / appropriate; proper / all right! / (before a verb) easy to / (before a verb) good to / (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so / (verb complement indicating completion) / (of two people) close; on intimate terms / (after a personal pronoun) hello

to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to

to sell / to betray / to spare no effort / to show off or flaunt

to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by

(of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal