Usually means: Excessively deferential or subservient behavior.
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  1. bow and_scrape: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bow and_scrape, bow and_scrape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bow and_scrape: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bow and_scrape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. bow and_scrape: Wiktionary
  6. bow and_scrape: Dictionary.com
  7. bow and_scrape: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. bow and_scrape: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (bow and scrape)

verb:  To make a deep bow with the right leg drawn back (thus scraping the floor), left hand pressed across the abdomen, right arm held aside.
verb:  (idiomatic, by extension) To behave in a servile, obsequious, or excessively polite manner.
noun:  A deep formal bow with right leg drawn back touching the ground.

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