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
OctÁVia	-	Portuguese
Noburu	no-boo-ṙoo	Japanese
BirutĖ	-	Lithuanian
Dave	DAYV	English
Espen	-	Norwegian, Danish
Apurva	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi