英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌbaʊ ən ˈskɹeɪp/

動詞

bow and scrape (三人称単数 現在形 bows かつ scrapes, 現在分詞 bowing かつ scraping, 過去形および過去分詞形 bowed かつ scraped)

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. (idiomatic, by extension) To behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner.
   • 1988 March 27, Newgate Callendar, "Crime" (book review of The Vulgar Boatman by William G. Tapply), New York Times (retrieved 25 Nov 2012):

     But he is not one of those lawyers who bow and scrape before wealthy clients. He will not be pushed around.

同意語

• (make a deep bow with the right leg draw back): make a leg
• (behave in a servile, obsequious, または excessively polite manner): brownnose, fawn, suck up

名詞

bow and scrape (複数形 bows かつ scrapes)

1. A deep formal bow with right leg drawn back touching the ground.
   • 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 11, in The House of the Seven Gables‎^[1]:

     [H]e took off his Highland bonnet, and performed a bow and scrape.