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bow and scrape

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bow and scrape

to try too hard to please someone in a position of authority. It's embarrassing to see staff bowing and scraping to the new Prime Minister. (often in continuous tenses)

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Every moment, also, he took off his Highland bonnet, and performed a bow and scrape. House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context More results

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