bow and scrape
disapprovingDefinition
› to show too much politeness or attention to someone: It's embarrassing to see staff bowing and scraping to the new director.Praising insincerely or too eagerly
(Definition of bow and scrape from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- make up to sb phrasal verb
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