lick one's boots

[lick one's boots] {v. phr.}

To flatter or act like a slave; do anything to please another.

* /She wanted her boyfriend to lick her boots all the time./

* /A wise king would not want his friends and officials to lick his boots./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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