English Idioms About “Clothes”
Idiom: Lick someone’s boots
Meaning: The phrase lick someone’s boots means to act in a servile or obsequious way toward someone, especially to gain favor from them. Shakespeare used this idiom in the form of lick someone’s shoe in The Tempest (3:2) when Caliban wants to serve Stephano rather than Trinculo, offering to lick his shoe CALIBAN I’ll not serve him; he’s not valiant.
Example: She seizes every opportunity to lick the boss’s boots.