kiss the ground someone walks on

English

Verb

kiss the ground someone walks on (third-person singular simple present kisses the ground someone walks on, present participle kissing the ground someone walks on, simple past and past participle kissed the ground someone walked on)

1. (figuratively) To praise someone highly.
   • 1836, Théodore de Bèze, translated by Francis Sibson, The Life of John Calvin, J. Whetham, page 167:

     and when you shall teach me otherwise, I will not only embrace it, but will kiss the ground you walk on

   • 1863 August 22, “Two Russian Villages”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volume X, number 226, page 617:

     Yes ; they cross themselves, bow down their heads level with their heels, kiss your feet, grovel on the very ground, and kiss the earth you walk on.

   • 1911, Louis Stone, Jonah:

     Make up something that I can believe. Say yer never 'ad a 'and in this, an' I'll kiss the ground yer walk on.