KOWTOW

Bow and scrape

• Act deferentially

• Act like a toady

• Act obsequiously

• Act the toady

• Apple-polish

• Be a bootlicker

• Be obsequious

• Be obsequious (to)

• Be servile (to)

• Bootlick

• Bow (to)

• Bow in a servile manner

• Bow like a servant

• Brownnose

• Constantly defer (to)

• Defer (to)

• Display deference

• Grovel

• Obsequious act

• Obsequious gesture

• Servilely defer (to)

• Show complaisance

• Show deep respect (to)

• Show servility

• Truckle

• W. W. took a bow.

• A former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission