英文除咗hard-nosed之外，另一種鼻係brown-nose: 啡鼻？食朱古力雪糕嘅鼻？熊人鼻？

例：The new manager said to him, “You can stop your brown-nosing! If you want to earn some  brownie points, buckle down and put your nose to the grindstone! You’ll have a much better shot at getting on my good side.”

brown-nose 擦鞋；brown-noser 擦鞋仔、馬屁友

除咗brown-nose 之外，另外有5個sayings值得一提：

brownie point - 印象分丶讚賞嘅理由 

buckle down - 著著實實，有下決心、認真做嘅含義 

put one’s nose to the grindstone - 努力丶落啲苦工、勤力啲 

a better shot - 多啲機會、好啲機會

get on someone’s good side - 得到某人嘅認同丶感激丶鍾意