English Explanatory Dictionary

drink someone's bathwater

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To be excessively adoring of someone.

Word forms

drink someone's bathwater drinks someone's bathwater drinking someone's bathwater drank someone's bathwater drunk someone's bathwater

Etymology

Presumably references various legends about religious devotees consuming bathwater as an act of devotion.

Related words

worship the ground someone walks on

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