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
Charlton	KAHRL-tən, CHAHRL-tən	English
Bean	[bi:n]
Ragnhildur	-	Icelandic
Hilde	HIL-də (German, Dutch)	German, Dutch, Norwegian
Irene	ie-REEN (English), ie-REE-nee (English), ee-RE-ne (Italian), EE-re-ne (Finnish), ee-RE-nu (German)	English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German, Ancient Greek (L
AindrÉAs	AHN-dray-as	Irish