worship the ground someone walks on

English

Etymology

First recorded in 1848.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

worship the ground someone walks on (third-person singular simple present worships the ground someone walks on, present participle worshipping the ground someone walks on or (US) worshiping the ground someone walks on, simple past and past participle worshipped the ground someone walked on or (US) worshiped the ground someone walked on)

  1. (idiomatic) To admire or adore someone to excess.

See also

References

  1. ^ “worship the ground someone walks on”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from Christine Ammer, The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2003, →ISBN.
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