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
Bjarne	BYAHR-ne (Danish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Walsh	[wɔ:lʃ]
Flynn	[flin]
ŽAklina	-	Croatian, Serbian
Berenice	bər-NEES (English), ber-ə-NEE-see (English), be-re-NEE-che (Italian)	English, Italian, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Dean	DEEN	English