pour honey into one's ear

A form of pour honey in one's ear — To tell one something pleasing or flattering.

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  1. alternativeAlternative form of pour honey in one's ear.

    “Listen to him, Gianfranco. He is like your heroine, the way he pours honey into my ear.”

    2008, “Federico Fellini”, in Elsie M. Walker, David T. Johnson, editors, Conversations with Directors, Scarecrow Press, page 183
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    Thus, thus is the soul wrenched from the body! With loving words he pours honey into her ears, lifts her up and clasps her to his breast, kisses her lips, her neck, her back, pushes her from him. “Goodbye!”

    1975, José Martí, Elinor Randall, transl., Inside the Monster, Monthly Review Press, page 317

    It just did not ring true. This was the dark angel, Bond thought, the fallen angel, Satan himself, pouring honey into his ear—honey laced with poison. The temptation was too great.

    1988, John Gardner, Scorpius, page 171
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