You bow and scrape and flatter, diminishing yourself and becoming unable to speak truth to power.
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Now Chance the Rapper can self-distribute "Acid Rap" over SoundCloud without having to bow and scrape before a corporate media executive.
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The country needs a president who treats our friends as friends and does not bow and scrape before enemies who flatter him.
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A titan of industry, he just didn't have the bow and scrape in him -- even if he knew that was what Trump required.
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Terrified of getting on his bad side, we bow and scrape, flatter and flirt, or worse — just to get that raise or make sure we don't get fired.
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SENSETIME, the world's most valuable artificial-intelligence startup, was not one to "bow and scrape for five pecks of rice", said Tang Xiaoou, one of its co-founders, last September.
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At every ribbon cutting and event in the county, they say in the absence of the queen, the high sheriff is here, and everybody has to sort of bow and scrape and be nice to me.
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Farmers could rent their land only on short-term leases, which forced them to bow and scrape before their landlords, in a condition of subordination not much different from servants, who lived in their masters' households and had to obey their rules.
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More to the point, every time you open your mouth, you look more and more like you got played by Steve Bannon and his army of hobgoblins to the detriment of tech leaders whom you somehow got to bow and scrape to the new administration.
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Adapted, from the French film of the same name, by Emma Rice, the Globe's soon-to-depart artistic director, it's about a tradition-bucking heroine too timid to stand up for her own genius, whose colleagues bow and scrape before an inscrutable man-fool they've been told is a savant.
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Potemkin, disguised as a tramp, befriends Orphan, who relates that his orphanage was purchased and eventually destroyed by a Mr. Rich. Orphan wants to find Rich to persuade him to restore the garden at the orphanage. Potemkin offers to be Orphan's guide and demonstrates how to cheat, steal, bow and scrape ("Survive"). Orphan and Potemkin enter the dwelling of Edgar Allen Rich, a wealthy old man.
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Pallat, a painter, asks to breakfast some known patrons of art. He then, with the aid of Dactyl, a poet, and Friendly, a comedian, sells by auction as original works some copies of paintings executed by his acquaintance. The proceeds of the sale, after the deduction of the cost of the breakfast and the true value of the paintings, are to be devoted to a fund for the relief of lunatics. The characters include Sir Bubble Buyall, Formal (a connoisseur), Lady Squeeze, Bow and Scrape (two hookers-in).
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Man bowing and scraping In European cultures—aside from bows done by performers on stage such as at the curtain call—bowing is traditionally an exclusively male practice, and women instead perform a related gesture called a "curtsey" or "curtsy." The depth of the bow was related to the difference in rank or degree of respect or gratitude. In Early Modern European courtly circles, males were expected to "bow and scrape" (hence the term "bowing and scraping" for what appears to be excessive ceremony). "Scraping" refers to the drawing back of the right leg as one bows, such that the right foot scrapes the floor or earth.
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