pour honey in one's ear

English

Alternative forms

• pour honey into one's ear

Phrase

pour honey in one's ear

1. (idiomatic, informal) To tell someone something they want to hear.
   • 2010, Maureen Lipman, “A Little Night-Night Music”, in I Must Collect Myself ...Choice Cuts from a Long Shelf Life, Simon & Schuster:

     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.

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

     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?

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

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