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]
Words nearby lick someone's boots
lick and a promise, a, lick into shape, lick observatory, lick one's chops, lick one's wounds, lick someone's boots, lick the stuffing out of, lick-alike, licker-in, lickerish, lickety-split
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