- lick boots
- lick (someone's) boots
informal
to try too hard to please someone important.
I'm not prepared to lick someone's boots to get a promotion.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
lick boots
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lick someone's boots — To try to ingratiate oneself with someone by obsequious behaviour • • • Main Entry: ↑boot lick someone s boots To toady • • • Main Entry: ↑lick * * * lick someone’s boots informal phrase to try too hard to p … Useful english dictionary
lick — ► VERB 1) pass the tongue over (something), typically in order to taste, moisten, or clean it. 2) move lightly and quickly like a tongue. 3) informal defeat comprehensively. ► NOUN 1) an act of licking. 2) informal a small amount or quick… … English terms dictionary
lick someone's boots — lick (someone s) boots informal to try too hard to please someone important. I m not prepared to lick someone s boots to get a promotion … New idioms dictionary
lick someone's boots — If you lick someone s boots, you behave in a very servile manner and try to please someone … The small dictionary of idiomes
lick someone's boots (or vulgar slang arse) — be excessively obsequious towards someone. → lick … English new terms dictionary
lick someone's boots — ► lick someone s boots (or vulgar slang arse) be excessively obsequious towards someone. Main Entry: ↑lick … English terms dictionary
lick somebody's boots — lick sb s ˈboots idiom (also taboo, slang lick sb s ˈarse) (disapproving) to show too much respect for sb in authority because you want to please t … Useful english dictionary
lick someone's boots — lick someone s shoes nobody licks the boss s boots with more finesse than Little Miss Syn: suck up to, toady to, be servile to, be obsequious to, fawn over, flatter, butter up, ingratiate oneself with, brown nose with/to … Thesaurus of popular words
lick someone's arse — ► lick someone s boots (or vulgar slang arse) be excessively obsequious towards someone. Main Entry: ↑lick … English terms dictionary
lick somebody's arse — lick sb s ˈboots idiom (also taboo, slang lick sb s ˈarse) (disapproving) to show too much respect for sb in authority because you want to please t … Useful english dictionary
