"lick someone's boots" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "licks someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licking someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "lick someone's boots"
      },
      "expansion": "lick someone's boots (third-person singular simple present licks someone's boots, present participle licking someone's boots, simple past and past participle licked someone's boots)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 April 13, Ryan Bort, “The Real Reason Republicans Are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads With Guns”, in Rolling Stone",
          "text": "“Far-right politicians in primaries are licking the boots of gun lobbyists,” Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts told Rolling Stone in an email on Tuesday. They’ll certainly continue to do so once in office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try hard to please someone."
      ],
      "id": "en-lick_someone's_boots-en-verb-Q3I407mt",
      "links": [
        [
          "please",
          "please"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To try hard to please someone."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "lick someone's ass"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "lick someone's balls"
        },
        {
          "word": "suck up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "lécher les bottes"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lick someone's boots"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "licks someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licking someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "licked someone's boots",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "head": "lick someone's boots"
      },
      "expansion": "lick someone's boots (third-person singular simple present licks someone's boots, present participle licking someone's boots, simple past and past participle licked someone's boots)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 April 13, Ryan Bort, “The Real Reason Republicans Are Loading Their 2022 Campaign Ads With Guns”, in Rolling Stone",
          "text": "“Far-right politicians in primaries are licking the boots of gun lobbyists,” Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts told Rolling Stone in an email on Tuesday. They’ll certainly continue to do so once in office.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try hard to please someone."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "please",
          "please"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) To try hard to please someone."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "lick someone's ass"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "lick someone's balls"
        },
        {
          "word": "suck up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "lécher les bottes"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lick someone's boots"
}