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alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) Act as a host to guests 2 (context idiomatic English) Perform a duty vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) Act as a host to guests 2 (context idiomatic English) Perform a duty
Usage examples of "do the honours".
Would you like to do the honours for your grandfather this year, young man?
Neville detached himself from a noisy throng at the counter and came over to do the honours.
Princess Gondele will be his jockey, and I am afraid you will be rather expected to do the honours for me.
The Yank is a fuel expert and, as Otto is our star fuel boffin, he had to be there to do the honours.
The politician took it upon himself to do the honours: tact was called for here.
Where his own purse and credit are not threatened, he will do the honours of his village generously.
Bernard beamed and Fred Timson, a kindly man and most innocent robber, stepped out of the ranks to do the honours.
Two little girls, naked as the day they were born, came forward to do the honours.