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lick someone's boots idiom informal(offensivelick someone's arse/ass) to try very hard to please someone in authority, usually in order to get an advantage: 对(某人)阿谀奉承,对(某人)溜须拍马 He needn't expect me to go licking his boots!他不用指望我去拍他的马屁! SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Praising insincerely or too eagerly backhanded compliment bootlicker bow and scrapeidiom crawler creep flummery glad-handing grovel grovelling grovellingly obsequious obsequiously people pleaser play up to someone schmooze sycophantically toady toadying truckle unctuous
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