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to bow and scrape (before sb.); to crawl (to sb.); to creep (to sb.); to cringe (before sb.); to toady (to sb.); to truckle (to sb.); to grovel (before sb.); to kowtow (to sb.) [formal] (be obsequious to sb.) [listen] [listen] [listen] (vor jdm.) buckeln; katzbuckeln; kriechen; jdm. hinten reinkriechen [ugs.]; vor jdm. zu Kreuze kriechen; vor jdm. auf dem Bauch kriechen {vi} [übtr.] (sich unterwürfig verhalten) [listen]

to crawl to the bigwigs and bully the underlings [Br.]; to suck ass and kick ass nach oben buckeln und nach unten treten

I had to grovel to the bank manager to get a loan. Ich musste vor dem Bankdirektor zu Kreuze kriechen, um einen Kredit zu bekommen.

(low) bow (with one foot drawn backwards); leg [listen] [listen] Kratzfuß {m} [soc.] [hist.]

to make a leg; to bow and scrape einen Kratzfuß machen; katzbuckeln
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