- - To perform an act of servile respect
- - Grovel, offering punch and whiskey to wife
- - Try to gain favour by flattery
- - Kneel to show respect
- - Fawningly defer (to)
- - Show deep respect (to)
- - Be obsequious (to)
- - Constantly defer (to)
- - Servilely defer (to)
- - Be servile (to)
- - Defer (to)
- - Bow (to)
- - Act in an obsequious manner
- - Fawn and bovine, spoken of – could be two
- - Make obeisance, fawn
- - Do some groveling
- - Bow down before
- - knock out with a tug, and bow
- - Brownnose
- - Be servile (towards)
- - Old Chinese gesture of deference
- - Historic demonstration of reverence in eastern Asia
- - Gesture of submission
- - Behave obsequiously
- - Kneel in submission
- - Act obsequiously
- - Bow obsequiously
- - Bow in a servile manner
- - *Act deferentially
- - Show deference
- - Display deference
- - Show complaisance
- - Show servility
- - Act like a toady
- - Obsequious gesture
- - Sign of obeisance.
- - Be subservient: Colloq.
- - Treat with obsequious deference.
- - Bow of respect
- - Abase oneself
- - Bow and scrape
- - Be servile
- - Act the toady
- - Be obsequious
- - Apple-polish
- - Be a bootlicker
- - Grovel
- - Suck-up
- - Fawn
- - Toady
- - Submit
- - Pay homage
- - Truckle
- - Show obsequious deference
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