If you were writing a simile involving brown-nosing, you would say "brown-nosing around like" what?

Im trying to write a paper for my English class, and I want to make a simile about this womans really nosy cousins who are trying to explore a room sh

I'm trying to write a paper for my English class, and I want to make a simile about this woman's really nosy cousins who are trying to explore a room she'd kept locked away in her life because she's dead now. So I've said, "They had always wondered about that room, brown-nosing about it like..." I need to finish it.

or:I'm trying to write a paper for my English class, and I want to make a simile about this woman's really nosy cousins who are trying to explore a room she'd kept locked away in her life because she's dead now. So I've said, \"They had always wondered about that room, brown-nosing about it like...\" I need to finish it.


or:You realise that by taking an answer here as your words, you are not finishing it but merely borrowing? For the sake of helping, though, I would say... wait... isn't brown-nosing ingratiation as opposed to exploration?

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