lick+the+dust
51creep — Synonyms and related words: SOB, all fours, amble, andante, bastard, bend the knee, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bugger, claudicate, claudication, couch, cower, crawl, crawling, creeping, cringe, crouch, dead march, dogtrot, drag, drag along,… …
52cringe — Synonyms and related words: apple polish, avoid, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, blench, blink, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, brown nose, cower, crawl, creep, cringe to, croodle, crouch, crouch before, curtsy,… …
53flatter — Synonyms and related words: adorn, adulate, apotheosize, beautify, become, beguile, belaud, bend the knee, bepraise, beslobber, beslubber, blandish, bless, blow up, boast of, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brag about, brown nose, butter up,… …
54stoop — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, accord, be shamed, belly buster, belly flop, belly whopper, bend, bend the knee, bend the neck, bend to, bob, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, bow down, bow to, cannonball, cascade, cataract, chute, collapse …
55cower — Synonyms and related words: apple polish, bend, bend the knee, blench, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, dodder, fawn, flatter, flinch, get down, grovel, halt, hunch, hunch down, kneel, kowtow, lick the dust,… …
56eat crow — Synonyms and related words: abjure, back down, back out, backwater, climb down, crawfish out, deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, eat dirt, eat humble pie, forswear, kiss the rod, lick the dust, recant, renege, renounce, repudiate, retract, revoke,… …
57fawn — Synonyms and related words: Cape elk, Virginia deer, abase, antelope, apple polish, be confined, bear, bear a child, bear young, beige, bend the knee, birdling, blandish, bootlick, bow, bow and scrape, brown, brownish, brownish yellow, brunet,… …
58toady — Synonyms and related words: apple polish, apple polisher, ass licker, backscratcher, backslapper, bend the knee, bootlick, bootlicker, bow, bow and scrape, brown nose, brownie, clawback, courtier, cower, crawl, creature, creep, cringe, cringer,… …
59knock under — (Colloq.) Submit, yield, knuckle, give up, lower one s flag, kiss the rod, lick the dust, eat humble pie, draw in one s horns …
60submit — I. v. a. 1. Yield, surrender, resign, subject, give up. 2. Refer, commit. II. v. n. 1. Yield, surrender, succumb. 2. Yield, surrender, succumb, give up, knock under, lower one s flag, kiss the rod, lick the dust, eat humble pie, draw in one s… …
