kiss (one's) feet

figurative To grovel or otherwise try to gain favor. The professor isn't going to give you an A, so you might as well stop kissing his feet.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Neve	-	Irish
Jacintha	yah-SIN-tah	Dutch (Rare)
Lindsey	LINDZ-ee	English, Scottish
Adalwin	-	Ancient Germanic
Vasu	-	Hinduism, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi
Evgenia	yev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian), eev-GYE-nee-yah (Russian)	Greek, Russian, Bulgarian