"wait on someone hand and foot" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-wait on someone hand and foot.ogg [Australia] Forms: waits on someone hand and foot [present, singular, third-person], waiting on someone hand and foot [participle, present], waited on someone hand and foot [participle, past], waited on someone hand and foot [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=wait on someone hand and foot}} wait on someone hand and foot (third-person singular simple present waits on someone hand and foot, present participle waiting on someone hand and foot, simple past and past participle waited on someone hand and foot)
  1. (transitive, idiomatic) To attend to (someone's) every need, to the point of excess. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Hypernyms: serve Related terms: fetch and carry Translations (attend to someone's every need): 當帝王一般地侍候 (Chinese Mandarin), 当帝王一般地侍候 (dāng dìwáng yībān de shìhòu) (Chinese Mandarin), hemmotella pilalle (Finnish), être aux petits soins (French), servire e riverire (Italian), sèrvi au dé et à l'yi (Norman), servir de corpo e alma (Portuguese), fazer todas as vontades de (Portuguese), выполня́ть любу́ю при́хоть (vypolnjátʹ ljubúju príxotʹ) (Russian), bailarle el agua (Spanish), deshacerse en atenciones (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-wait_on_someone_hand_and_foot-en-verb-9xTE5eVM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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      "word": "當帝王一般地侍候"
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      "sense": "attend to someone's every need",
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      "sense": "attend to someone's every need",
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      "sense": "attend to someone's every need",
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      "sense": "attend to someone's every need",
      "word": "servir de corpo e alma"
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      "sense": "attend to someone's every need",
      "word": "fazer todas as vontades de"
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      "roman": "vypolnjátʹ ljubúju príxotʹ",
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    },
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      "code": "ru",
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      "note": "служи́ть ве́рой и пра́вдой (služítʹ véroj i právdoj, literally “to serve faithfully”)",
      "sense": "attend to someone's every need"
    },
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "attend to someone's every need",
      "word": "bailarle el agua"
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