cirer les pompes
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cirer les pompes
- \si.ʁe le pɔ̃p\
Where it comes from
De cirer et pompe au sens de « chaussure ».
verb
- Dire du bien de quelqu’un de manière obséquieuse, le flatter à outrance. Il a ciré les pompes au patron toute la soirée.
Similar: caresser dans le sens du poil, cirer les bottes, faire de la lèche, lécher, lécher le cul, lécher les bottes, passer la brosse à reluire, passer de la pommade, sucer
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In English
- suck up to adulate or flatter excessively
- bow and scrape behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner
- brown-nose to flatter in obsequious manner
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title = {cirer les pompes},
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