to bask in someone's favour

None of those people is my father.

It is affixed by a bolt to a pauldron of four plates, of which the main plate has an outward-turned flange which fits neatly within the high neckguard of the reinforcing plate (pl. cxviii, 4). The right pauldron […]

It proved to be a spoon made of Abyssinian gold, a composition closely resembling in appearance the real article.