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pay court to

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[pay court to] {v. phr.}

To woo; to shower with attention.

* /He had been paying court to her for three long years before he worked up the courage to ask her to marry him./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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