| 单词 | bow and scrape |
| 释义 | bow and scrapeSEE SYNONYMS FOR bow and scrape ON THESAURUS.COM Behave obsequiously or too deferentially, as in In this fashionable store, the salespersons virtually bow and scrape before customers. This term alludes to the old-fashioned custom of bowing so deeply that one's foot draws back and scrapes the ground. A cliché for a century or more, it may be dying out. [Mid-1600s] Words nearby bow and scrapebovine spongiform encephalopathy, Bovril, bovver, bovver boots, bow, bow and scrape, bow back, Bow bells, bow collector, bow compass, Bowditch The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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