Australians, intolerant of bootlicking, derided the decision.
"And here they put in this nobody whose entire talent is in bootlicking.
IN "The Merchant of Venice," Shakespeare's callow nobleman Bassanio beseeches and bootlicks his way into marrying the heiress Portia, but their future together seems iffy by the end of the play.
There was no code-switching or bootlicking; no concessions, politicking or posturing.
Most of the time, however, he has no personal attitude on show beyond sheer bootlicking obsequiousness.
(For that, she got accused of "bootlicking" by Pamela Geller, who spends a fair amount of her time raging at Islam).
Yours cordially, OCTAVE-HIPPOLYTE PLEURNICHE Allahabad, U.P., September 11, 1903 DEAR M. PLEURNICHE: Spare me, I pray, your turgid rhetoric and bootlicking protestations, and be equally sparing of the bleach you use on my shirts.
Stalin hated it if anyone disagreed with him, yet he admired the courage of those who did: "Having created an environment of bootlicking idolatry," Montefiore writes, "Stalin was irritated by it".
With Iraq as the end point, Mr. Weiner's thesis is instead that from the 1940s on, intelligence gaffes, sloppy covert action and bootlicking in the Oval Office have kept the agency from making the kind of grandiose contributions often claimed for it and, at crucial times, have done this country damage.
During "Handle Me," she wasn't so much singing as riding the beat, almost smiling as she sneered, "You're a selfish, narcissistic, psycho-freaking, bootlicking Nazi creep/And you can't handle me".
