When bowing isn't enough, petitioners to some Indian royal courts were expected to prostrate themselves on the floor. Some even required those seeking an audience to belly crawl to the throne.
"Bowing and scraping" is therefore the maximum deference to someone.
I know this because of my Great-Grandfather's service in India.
c.1303, probably from O.N. skrapa "to scrape, erase," from P.Gmc. *skrapojan (cf. O.E. scrapian "to scrape," Du. schrapen, Ger. schrappen). The noun is attested from c.1440. Meaning "embarrassing or awkward predicament" is recorded from 1709, as OED suggests, "probably from the notion of being 'scraped' in going through a narrow passage."
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"Bowing and scraping" is therefore the maximum deference to someone.
I know this because of my Great-Grandfather's service in India.
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So my hunch maybe wrong.
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As the free dictionary reference here suggests, it could be the foot. Could be the forehead. Could be knuckles. Knees. Clothing. And somesuch.
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