Difference between Suck Up and Play Up

SUCK UP vs PLAY UP: VERB

To adulate or flatter somebody excessively, generally to obtain some personal benefit or favour.
To absorb fluid
Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior
Take in, also metaphorically

To make or attempt to make something appear more important, likely or obvious; to showcase or highlight
To misbehave
Ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior
Move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent

Play up, Bootlick, Cotton up, Sop up, Shine up, Take up, Fawn, Soak up, Toady, Imbibe, Draw, Kowtow, Truckle, Absorb, Suck

Laugh at, Mess around, Have on, Fiddle with, Piss about, Mess about, Act up, Shine up, Suck up, Sidle up, Cozy up, Cotton up, Foreground, Spotlight, Highlight

Sycophant, Toadyism, Adulator, Footlicker, Arse licker, Brownnose, Sop up, Take up, Fawn, Soak up, Toady, Imbibe, Draw, Kowtow, Suck

Toy with, Upgrow, Egg on, Misbehave, Youngster, Play around, Laugh at, Mess around, Have on, Fiddle with, Piss about, Mess about, Suck up, Foreground, Highlight

Moored suck up to is also again called unwritten business.
So I just have to suck up the regular way.
Typically, they suck up machine memory that legitimate programmes use.
Do Anteaters Use Their Long Noses to Suck up Ants?
Almost like a dry sponge to suck up new information.
Comcast suck up NBC would be a worst disaster.
Go suck up to your greedy Emirates buddies.
As it reduces subsidies for gasoline at home all the pent up demand will suck up more crude and more products.
VCE system favouring students who suck up to them setting them up for positions as the dux.
If the Mako Reactor continues to suck up the energy, this fountain will dry up too.

Both teams will play up to the setting.
Old knee injury decided to play up again?.
You can choose to play up the noise and propaganda of the few, or stand up for the plain truth and the common good.
Members can play up a in a division, but not play down in a division.
The interior scenes that make up the greater portion are stagy studio sets, meant to play up constructedness and artificiality.
Fifty play Deuces Video Poker lets you play up to fifty hands of video poker at the same time.
To do so, take the mattress out of the play yard and fold the pack and play up.
Insurance companies love to play up negative stereotypes of motorcyclists and play games with the rights of accident victims.
But other teams play up cause they are so much better than the class they play in.
Play on awake means basically, as soon as I press start or play up here, it will actually play whatever track out draggin.