pour honey in one's ear

alternative pour honey into one's ear

1. idiomaticinformalTo tell one something pleasing or flattering.

   Rhys snapped shut the lid. “So he plies you with jewels and pours honey in your ear, and now you feel bad?”

   2016, Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury, Bloomsbury, page 335

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   I'm five yards away, and horribly jealous. He comes over and pours honey in my ear about how all those months back I said I couldn't play it and then I brought so much to it and I am faint from what I can't say.

   2010, Maureen Lipman, “A Little Night-Night Music”, in I Must Collect Myself ...Choice Cuts from a Long Shelf Life, Simon & Schuster

   You knew you and I were perfect for each other. But he poured honey in your ear somewhere along the way and got you pregnant and then he started fucking up. And you know how that tore at me?

   2011, Doug Magee, Darkness All Around, Simon & Schuster, page 291