0 a person who praises and is artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them: --
Everywhere he goes he is surrounded by an entourage of toadies.
1 to praise and be artificially pleasant to people in authority, usually in order to get some advantage from them: --
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.
We kunnen het stap voor stap voltooien, hoe lang de weg ook is en het kan niet worden voltooid, hoe kort de weg ook is, als je niet eens je voetafdruk markeert.