Lap up

The cat's lapping up the milk in its bowl

You could see she was pleased, she was lapping up the applause.

All this skirt, lappin' up the sun, lap me up

City have lapped up the plaudits this season for a series of handsome wins but manager Roberto Mancini has demanded that his side also learn to grind out results when they do not play well. He now has an example to point to.

Merkel, whose autobiography is out this autumn, has declined to comment publicly on the series. But fellow Germans have lapped it up, with the first series gathering 3mn viewers.