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cap in hand
Word definitions for cap in hand in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cap \Cap\ (k[a^]p), n. [OE. cappe, AS. c[ae]ppe, cap, cape, hood, fr. LL, cappa, capa; perhaps of Iberian origin, as Isidorus of Seville mentions it first: ``Capa, quia quasi totum capiat hominem; it. capitis ornamentum.'' See 3d Cape , and cf. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. (cx idiom English) In a humble and respectful manner
Usage examples of cap in hand.
All they had in the world was the nerve to stand in a back yard with cap in hand and sing loudly.
Shekt was peering helplessly at the gnarled farmer standing before him, cap in hand, head half averted, as though attempting to avoid a too close scrutiny.
Shekt was peering helplessly at the gnarled farmer standing before him, cap in hand, head half averted, as though attempting to avoid a too-close scrutiny.
Ten minutes later Dr Shekt was peering helplessly at the gnarled farmer standing before him, cap in hand, head half averted, as though attempting to avoid a too-close scrutiny.
I had no intention of going cap in hand to wake him and beg his gun just because a sea-lawyer of a greaser had claimed to have seen a ghost.
When the duty Petty Officer appeared in the wardroom doorway, cap in hand, to say that Compass Rose was 'ready for Rounds', Lockhart, who was Officer-of-the-Day, stood up, and followed him out of the wardroom and up the ladder towards the fo'c'sle, and the last job of his 24-hour turn of duty.
She doesn't want Mike to go cap in hand to his partner's relatives.