get-overable

Updated: May 1, 2025

Anyhow, whatever particular kind of an earl a belted earl may be, he is, I assert, get-overable by flattery; just as every other human being is, from a duchess to a cat's-meat man, from a plow boy to a poet and the poet far easier than the plowboy, for butter sinks better into wheaten bread than into oaten cakes. As for love, flattery is its very life-blood.

Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome - Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow