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noun

An obsequious or servile person.

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He's got bootlickers telling him what a big star he's going to be

noun

Someone who praises or is extremely polite to a more powerful or rich person in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get an advantage for themselves

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Even after years of being a magnet for bootlickers and overzealous admirers, he's still just a nice…

noun

A thing that crawls or moves at a slow pace, especially an insect.

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The light bulb was a magnet for moths and many-legged crawlers

noun

A person who uses ambiguous language to conceal the truth or avoid commitment.

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Equivocators on controversial social issues

noun

A person who gives a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection.

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Powerful people are always surrounded by fawners

noun

A person who tries to be friendly and spend time with rich or important people to get some advantage

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Wherever there are rock stars, there are always hangers-on.

noun

A hypocritical person.

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The story tells of respectable ben who turns out to be a cheat and a hypocrite

noun

Someone who says they have particular moral beliefs but behaves in way that shows these are not sincere

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He's a hypocrite - he's always lecturing other people on the environment but he drives around in a …

proper noun

An ancient italian deity, guardian of doorways and gates and protector of the state in time of war. he is usually represented with two faces, so that he looks both forwards and backwards.

noun

In roman mythology (= ancient stories), the god of beginnings, gates, and doorways. he is often shown with two faces, one looking forward and one looking backward

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January takes its name from the roman god janus.

noun

An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.

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The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.

verb

Habitually exploit or rely on.

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He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun

A doctor or healer.

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

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He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

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He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

noun

A movable model of a person or animal that is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it.

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A puppet show

phrase

An unpleasant person who cannot be trusted

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I don't trust him - he's a snake in the grass., she had no time for him at all and called him a sna…

noun

A dog of a breed with a long silky coat and drooping ears.

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In the middle ages, a type of spaniel was bred, the ancestor of some of our modern spaniels, that w…

noun

A type of dog of small or medium size with soft hair and long ears that hang down

noun

A person who acts obsequiously towards someone important in order to gain advantage.

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Because he is high-ranking, he's surrounded by sycophants

noun

Someone who praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

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The prime minister is surrounded by sycophants.

noun

A person who behaves obsequiously to someone important.

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He calls it a ‘parasite’, which she learned in school is usually defined as a hanger-on, a toady, a…

verb

Act in an obsequious way.

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She imagined him toadying to his rich clients

noun

A person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them

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Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies., shostakovich was often seen as a p…

noun

An implement used for cutting and neatening something.

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A hedge trimmer

adjective

Neat and smart in appearance; in good order.

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His face was freshly shaved, his clothes neat and trim

noun

A device used for making something tidier or more level by cutting a small amount off it

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A hedge trimmer