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kisses someone's ring

kisses someone's ring is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kiss someone's ring.

Meaning of kiss someone's ring

Verb

kiss someone's ring (third-person singular simple present kisses someone's ring, present participle kissing someone's ring, simple past and past participle kissed someone's ring)

  1. (idiomatic) To give respect or reverence to someone; to express servitude to someone.
    • The friendship had faltered during their first year at Oxford, when Barnaby had turned jester-in-chief to a pride of strutting young peacocks with titles and country estates. He had made them laugh and kissed their rings and they in return had sneered at him behind his back.2011, Mark Mills, chapter 9, in House of the Hanged, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; House of the Hunted: A Novel, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 2011, →ISBN, page 106

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Kisses someone's ring is the third-person singular simple present indicative of kiss someone's ring.

Words near kisses someone's ring in the dictionary

  1. kisses out
  2. kisses someone on the dick
  3. kisses someone's arse
  4. kisses someone's ass
  5. kisses someone's hem
  6. kisses someone's ring
  7. kisses the book
  8. kisses the dust
  9. kisses the gunner's daughter
  10. kisses the hem of someone's garment
  11. kisses the ring

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