pour honey into one's ear

pour honey into one's ear

English

Alternative forms

• pour honey in one's ear

Phrase

pour honey into one's ear

1. Tell someone something that they want to hear.
   • 1975, José Martí, translated by Elinor Randall, Inside the Monster, Monthly Review Press, page 317:

     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!”

   • 1988, John Gardner, Scorpius, page 171:

     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.

   • 2008, edited by Elsie M. Walker and David T. Johnson, Conversations with Directors, Scarecrow Press, "Federico Fellini", page 183:

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