lick someone's boots
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lick someone's boots
verb licks someone's boots · licking someone's boots · licked someone's boots
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To try hard to please someone.
“Far-right politicians in primaries are licking the boots of gun lobbyists,” Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts told Rolling Stone in an email on Tuesday. They’ll certainly continue to do so once in office.
Similar: lick someone's ass, lick someone's balls, suck up
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| Français | lécher les bottes |
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