Spanish speakers have a few other ways of describing colleagues who suck up to the boss or for anyone else who is too eager to please another person: pelota' (ball in Spanish) or perrito faldero (lapdog). When someone cheekily passes off work or responsibilities to other colleagues in the workplace, they 'drain the lump' (as weird as it may sound) in Spanish. In Spanish, the person stuck with the work after their colleague passed the buck to them has to 'eat the brown'.