to play the lickboot

to play the lickboot

Sucking is a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is sh ǔ NJ ū sh ì zh ì, which means dirty behavior on the low side. It comes from Sima Qian's biography of syingxing in historical records in the Western Han Dynasty.

Idiom explanation

[explanation]: see "sucking carbuncle and licking hemorrhoids". It is said to absorb carbuncle and gangrene by mouth and eliminate its poison by licking hemorrhoids by tongue. Later, it describes the dirty behavior on the basis of flattery.

Idioms and allusions

[source]: Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty's historical records: biographies of syingxingliezhuan: "Emperor Wen tasted carbuncle, but emperor Deng usually sucked it."

Discrimination of words

Is it not a ghost to be enterprising, quick to make money, and to do everything? Song Sushi's the second chapter of Yu hagao's gossip

Usage: used as predicate and attributive; refers to the mean flattery