wait on someone hand and foot

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

wait on someone hand and foot (third-person singular simple present waits on someone hand and foot, present participle waiting on someone hand and foot, simple past and past participle waited on someone hand and foot)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To attend to (someone's) every need, to the point of excess.

   Did you see how she waits on him hand and foot? It's not healthy.

Hypernyms

• See Thesaurus:serve

Translations

attend to someone's every need

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 當帝王一般地侍候／当帝王一般地侍候 (dāng dìwáng yībān de shìhòu)

• Finnish: hemmotella pilalle
• French: être aux petits soins (fr)
• Italian: servire e riverire
• Norman: sèrvi au dé et à l'yi
• Portuguese: servir de corpo e alma (literally “serve with body and soul”), fazer todas as vontades de
• Russian: выполня́ть любу́ю при́хоть (vypolnjátʹ ljubúju príxotʹ), служи́ть ве́рой и пра́вдой (služítʹ véroj i právdoj, literally “to serve faithfully”)
• Spanish: bailarle el agua, deshacerse en atenciones

See also

• fetch and carry