lick someone's boots

Act with extreme servility, as in This man wanted every employee to lick his boots, so he had a hard time keeping his staff . Shakespeare used this idiom in the form of lick someone's shoe in The Tempest (3:2). [Late 1500s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Clancy	KLANT-see	Irish, English (Rare)
Tuur	TUYR	Dutch, Limburgish
Annett	-	German
Olexiy	-	Ukrainian
Jinan	-	Arabic
Helga	HEL-gah (German), HEL-gaw (Hungarian)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Dutch, Hungarian, Ancient Scandinavian