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| Russian | English |
| заслужить чьё-либо расположение | score points with (someone: I scored some points with my mother-in-law by offering to wash the dishes after the big meal. SirReal) |
| подкупом заслужить расположение | buy oneself into the good graces of (someone – кого-либо) Did the English think that one scholarship would be enough to buy themselves into the good graces of the coloured people of Jamaica? kirobite) |
| стараться заслужить чьё-либо расположение | polish the apple (younenari) |