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
Majken	MIE-ken (Swedish)	Danish, Swedish
Sharleen	shahr-LEEN	English
Tancredo	-	Spanish
Ludovico	loo-do-VEE-ko	Italian
Gholam	-	Persian
Nestor	NES-tor (English)	Greek Mythology, Russian