Rate this phrase:5.0 / 2 votes

lick his boots

To try too hard to please someone important.
432 Views
“

Sargeant Billy Blather's office fridge was stuffed with tasty treats from the officer's mess, the shelves always awash with drink treats. Billie was expert in licking the right pairs of boots in our squadron.

Collection   Edit    

Submitted by WerterBuch on July 28, 2015

Translation

Find a translation for the lick his boots phrase in other languages:

leccare i suoi stivali

botlarını yala

Select another language:

  • - Select -
  • 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
  • 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
  • Español (Spanish)
  • Esperanto (Esperanto)
  • 日本語 (Japanese)
  • Português (Portuguese)
  • Deutsch (German)
  • العربية (Arabic)
  • Français (French)
  • Русский (Russian)
  • ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
  • 한국어 (Korean)
  • עברית (Hebrew)
  • Gaeilge (Irish)
  • Українська (Ukrainian)
  • اردو (Urdu)
  • Magyar (Hungarian)
  • मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
  • Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Italiano (Italian)
  • தமிழ் (Tamil)
  • Türkçe (Turkish)
  • తెలుగు (Telugu)
  • ภาษาไทย (Thai)
  • Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
  • Čeština (Czech)
  • Polski (Polish)
  • Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
  • Românește (Romanian)
  • Nederlands (Dutch)
  • Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • Latinum (Latin)
  • Svenska (Swedish)
  • Dansk (Danish)
  • Suomi (Finnish)
  • فارسی (Persian)
  • ייִדיש (Yiddish)
  • հայերեն (Armenian)
  • Norsk (Norwegian)
  • English (English)

Nearby phrases

Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to lick his boots

hand someone his headknock some sense into his headlick one's woundslick the pants offone of his majesty's bad bargainslick my ballslick someone's ballslick and a promisehis back is uplick one's chopshe tapped his fingers on the table impa…lick one's woundslick someone's asslike a martin to his gourd

How to pronounce this phrase?

Discuss this lick his boots phrase with the community:

0 Comments

    Citation

    Use the citation below to add this lick his boots definition to your bibliography:

    Style:MLAChicagoAPA

    "lick his boots." Phrases.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 21 Nov. 2024. <https://www.phrases.com/phrase/lick-his-boots_16422>.

    Powered by CITE.ME Cite.Me

    We need you!

    Help us build the largest human-edited phrases collection on the web!

    Quiz

    Are you a phrases master?

    »
    Better late than _____.
    A never
    B early
    C absent
    D sorry

    Browse Phrases.com

    #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ