1 to clasp

2 to cup the hands

3 to hold up with both hands

4 to offer (esp. in cupped hands)

5 to praise

6 to flatter

1 to flatter

2 to laud sb's accomplishments

3 adulation

1 to cheer on (originally esp. as paid stooge)

2 to root for sb

3 to sing sb's praises

4 to flatter

1 to chase after (a popular person or item)

2 to pursue

3 popularity

1 funny

2 amusing

3 sth comical

1 to hold up buttocks and praise a fart (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants

2 to toady

3 boot-licking

1 lit. all the stars cup themselves around the moon (idiom, from Analects); fig. to view sb as core figure

2 to group around a revered leader

3 to revolve around sb

1 indiscriminate admiration (idiom)

1 lit. Xishi clasps at her heart (idiom)

2 fig. a woman's lovely looks, despite the pangs of illness