kiss one's feet

beseech fawn

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apple-polish beg for mercy bow and scrape butter up cater to eat crow eat dirt eat humble pie fall all over humble oneself make much of make up to play up to suck up to

ignore

boast

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apple-polish be servile brown-nose butter up fall all over fall on one's knees honey up kiss-up lay it on lick boots pay court play up to scratch one's back suck up to

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apple-polish be servile brown-nose butter up fall all over fall on one's knees honey up kiss-up lay it on lick boots pay court play up to scratch one's back suck up to