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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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