Source : WordNet®

play up
     v 1: move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent;
          "The introduction highlighted the speaker's
          distinguished career in linguistics" [syn: {foreground},
           {highlight}, {spotlight}] [ant: {background}, {background}]
     2: ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior; "She
        is playing up to the chairman" [syn: {cozy up}, {cotton up},
         {shine up}, {sidle up}, {suck up}]