bow and scrape
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bow and scrape
- /ˌbaʊ ən ˈskɹeɪp/
verb bows and scrapes · bowing and scraping · bowed and scraped · scrape and bow
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To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus scraping the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside.
Similar: make a leg
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To behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner.
But he is not one of those lawyers who bow and scrape before wealthy clients. He will not be pushed around.
Similar: brown-nose, fawn, suck up, apple-polish, bootlick, bow and scrape, butter up, dickride, duchess, fawn over, fellate, flannel
noun bows and scrapes · scrape and bow
- A deep formal bow with right leg drawn back touching the ground. [H]e took off his Highland bonnet, and performed a bow and scrape.
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verb behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner
| Français | passer de la pommade, lécher le cul, caresser dans le sens du poil, cirer les pompes |
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| Русский | расша́ркиваться rasšárkivatʹsja |
noun deep formal bow
| Deutsch | Kratzfuß |
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