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Option C: Stern admonishment for the flagrant disregard shown to our generous and gracious host. (brown-nose grovel & boot lick - can I read what the Rhino has read?)

Cheeseburger Gothic » Sweet jeebus, lookit this mess! 2009

My guess is behind his back they called him "Rudolph the brown-nose reindeer."

Michael L. Millenson: "Rudolph" Sings of Santa as Savvy Manager, Marketer Michael L. Millenson 2011

What intrigues me is that he must be so surrounded by brown-nose twittering sycophants that he doesnt realise that EVERYONE who comes into contact with him (well, at least me, three of my friends and anyone else I have ever met who has known him) regard his weird, fat-lady pear-shaped body an inescapable topic of conversation.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

Oh, yeah, and if my dad liked me as much as the neighbor kid who's a 'brown-nose' ....

Dr. Cara Barker: What Our Kids Have To Teach Us About Happiness 2009

If she wanted an extra change, she'd have to beg and brown-nose the nannychka, as the orderly was addressed by the screaming women.

Julia Gorin: Americans Want Universal Access to Graveyards 2009

Then only the brown-nose or malicious supervisors got you to do it …. so they decided that drastic action was needed … … they went for …. a RE-BRAND and a RE-LAUNCH … so CPD became PDR (Personal Development Review .. or Pointless Document Revamped).

“Could Try Harder” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

Yes, I know you and Brown are a pair of smart arses, and don't like taking advice from anyone not a brown-nose of your team, but, in your interest in avoiding the ignominity that history will remember you as guilty of, I thought you may be interested.

[sonus] understanding issues: part 5 2009

I've heard you speak a few a times now and don't take this as a "brown-nose, fan-boy" comment, but you have a great speaking voice.

New NPR piece airing tonight Steven Barnes 2008

As long as police and judiciary are promoted based on their ability to brown-nose the elite, things will continue as they are.

The Wolf Who Cried Boy « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

They become middle managers very quickly because they figure ou t how to brown-nose and do it vigorously and with gusto.

Illegals, Legals and Darkness 2007