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"Lick her boots" nghĩa là gì?
24 Aug, 2019
Ê, sao mình đi chân trần miết vậy? Photo by Meg Kannan
"Lick (one's) boots" = Liếm giày ai đó -> Hành động vô cùng thấp hèn, rất đồng ý với ai điều gì đăc biệt là với những người có quyền thế hoặc cũng được coi là cách để nịnh hót ai/cầu cạnh ai để xin ân huệ.
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“Nigger, nigger (người da đen) lick my boots,” went one chant, which presumably found favour on account of its modest (khiêm tốn) syllable (âm tiết) count.
A student from Arunachal Pradesh has alleged (cho là, khẳng định) a racial attack by his landlord (chủ nhà), who he claimed beat him up and forced him to lick his boots.
That’s the underlying premise of Late Night, and the 28-year-veteran of late-night TV is played by Emma Thompson… who is, to be fair, exactly the sort of woman who should have been enjoying such a long comedic tenure (sự chiếm hữu) in America’s sleepytimeslot. The overlying premise (tiền đề) is that, in an attempt to get her ratings mojo back and save her job — which the network is threatening to hand over to a truly awful younger male comic who is not worthy to lick her boots — Thompson’s Katherine Newbury hires a new writer who is the first to break the white-male wall of blandness (nhạt nhẽo, ôn tồn) that is her writers’ room.
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