kiss the ground someone walks on

present singular third person kisses the ground someone walks on · participle present kissing the ground someone walks on · participle past kissed the ground someone walked on · past kissed the ground someone walked on

1. figurativelyTo praise someone highly.

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

   1836, Théodore de Bèze, translated by Francis Sibson, The Life of John Calvin, J. Whetham, page 167

   2 more examples

   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.

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

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

   1911, Louis Stone, Jonah