Crossword clues for bow and scrape
Wiktionary
alt. 1 To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus '''scraping''' the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside. 2 (context idiomatic by extension English) To behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner. n. A deep formal bow with right leg drawn back touching the ground. vb. 1 To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus '''scraping''' the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside. 2 (context idiomatic by extension English) To behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner.
Usage examples of "bow and scrape".
Gems is nice, and for gold that goes twice, but there's nothing like having folk bow and scrape before ye, is there?
Out there in public I may have to bow and scrape to you, but here in private you'll call me sir, and like it.
Now that you know who I am, it pleases you that I'll have to bow and scrape to you.
He murmured expressions of greeting profusely as he showed them in, and for a race noted for its haughtiness, he managed to bow and scrape most ambitiously.