Possible Clues:

• Stroke and be very nice to
• Make no haste to draw line under throat
• Move slowly and be overrun
• Suck up to
• To appear servile in civil war, Cavaliers effecting volte-face
• Caught animal's tail around new fawn
• Hands-and-knees movement
• Move like rush-hour traffic
• Move as snakes do, or on hands and knees
• Get along swimmingly or make slow progress?