dance attendance on sb
UKDefinition
› to do everything that someone asks you to and treat them as if they are special: I can't stand the way she has to have someone dancing attendance on her the whole time.Praising insincerely or too eagerly
(Definition of dance attendance on sb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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