bow and scrape

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bow and scrape 的定义

  1. 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]

bow and scrape 近义词

v. 动词 verb

be excessively polite

bow and scrape 的近义词 6

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  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  3. Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
  4. Later that night, that same black-and-red banner would be seen again—in the column of marchers chanting for dead cops.
  5. The kids are out of school, Mom is out of get-up-and-go, Dad is out of work.
  6. She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
  7. No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
  8. He would fear what he did not understand, and he would bow down and pay homage to what he feared.
  9. And with another bow the man from Paris drew himself erect, turned on his heel, and went jingling and creaking from the room.
  10. To the invitation to precede him she readily responded, and, with a bow to the Seneschal, she began to walk across the apartment.