溜须拍马 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 溜鬚拍馬 liūxūpāimǎ ㄌㄧㄡ ㄒㄩ ㄆㄞ ㄇㄚˇ to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom) to use flatter to get what one wants to toady boot-licking Character by character 溜(liū)slip away 须(xū)must 拍(pāi)pat 马(mǎ)surname Ma A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0