kiss someone's ring

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To give respect or reverence to someone; to express servitude to someone.

   “The friendship had faltered during their first year at Oxford, when Barnaby had turned jester-in-chief to a pride of strutting young peacocks with titles and country estates. He had made them laugh and kissed their rings and they in return had sneered at him behind his back.”