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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 217. The idiom today is to lick someone's

  • boots. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. The idiom is used in a disapproving

  • way. So we're not usually complimenting someone. We're usually criticizing them a

  • little bit when we say that if somebody is licking someone's boots. So let's

  • continue here. If a person licks another person's boots. He or she treats someone

  • powerful or in authority with too much respect or humbles himself too much. Okay.

  • So let's look at number one. If you want to get on the good side of the boss you may

  • have to lick his boots. Yeah or again we might use it in the disapproving way.

  • Like somebody may say well I'm not going to lick his boots just to get that

  • promotion. You know, somebody might say something like that way. And let's look at

  • the second example here. There is no need to lick his boots, he is just an

  • assistant to the supervisor without any real power.

  • So maybe somebody's telling somebody else you know, you don't have to. It's a

  • little bit like kiss up to someone. It's a little bit like brown-nose. It's a little

  • similar to that idea. When you lick somebody's boots. So at the same time we

  • do have another word where it probably came from . Like a bootlicker. Yeah. You

  • could kind of understand how this came about. I mean hopefully you would really

  • not get down and actually lick someone's boots that would be very dirty.

  • You know, if somebody made you do that. Like my boots. Kind of like you know,

  • you'd almost do anything to try to please them. So yeah we do say a boot-

  • licker. A bootlicker is someone who humbles himself. So the same thing here,

  • or behaves in a way as someone who has no self-respect. So that's what we might

  • say. John is such a bootlicker. Doesn't he have any self-respect. Yes. Okay. Anyway,

  • I hope you got it . I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

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