lick someone's boots イディオム
lick someone's boots
lick someone's boots Act with extreme servility, as in
This man wanted every employee to lick his boots, so he had a hard time keeping his staff. Shakespeare used this idiom in the form of
lick someone's shoe in
The Tempest (3:2). [Late 1500s]
lick (someone's) boots
To flatter, abase over, or agilely accede with someone, abnormally a being of college ascendancy as a agency of currying favor. It's no admiration you're the teacher's admired from the way you lick her boots! Look, it's aloof the attributes of this business that sometimes you accept to lick your superiors' boots if you appetite to get ahead.Learn more: boot, licklick someone's boots
Act with acute servility, as in This man capital every agent to lick his boots, so he had a adamantine time befitting his agents . Shakespeare acclimated this argot in the anatomy of lick someone's shoe in The Tempest (3:2). [Late 1500s] Learn more: boot, licklick someone's boots
INFORMALIf one being licks addition person's boots, they do things or say things to amuse that person, generally because the additional being is powerful. Even if you didn't accept an official position you'd still be able locally and everybody'd be beating your boots. Note: You can alarm addition who does this a bootlicker. Everyone in Bob's actual amphitheater was a accomplished bootlicker. Note: You use these expressions to appearance that you acquisition this behaviour unpleasant. Learn more: boot, licklick someone's boots
be badly abject appear someone, abnormally to accretion favour.Learn more: boot, lick