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adv. (context idiomatic English) With humility; in an apologetic or self-effacing fashion.
Usage examples of "hat in hand".
At the end of their second, record-breaking year of unprecedented sales, brother Kogh Ademian journeyed down to Richmond, hat in hand, visibly eating crow and insisting that it was a familial responsibility for Rupen and Bagrat to keep all the Ademian businesses in the family, not to mention taking advantage of the wealth and influence of his Ademian Enterprises, Incorporated.
After the indigenous Americans rode Buffalo Bill, goatee jutting out and hat in hand, locks flowing in the breeze.
He carried his hat in hand and swung it up in place as he came closer.
They stopped, and Sharpe had the door open before the footman could leap down from the box, but as the three men scrambled out he stood beside the door hat in hand, his dark face illuminated by the carriage lamps.
After two songs, the fiddle and horn carried on alone while the drummer went around hat in hand ungraciously acceptÂ.
He had been gone about twenty minutes when Jeeves came in, bowler hat in hand, to say goodbye.
Linford came out, hard hat in hand, and looked around, seeking Rebus.
They looked as if they wondered what could bring an armed party there, but when they saw the ladies get out of the wagon, they dismounted instantly, and went toward them hat in hand.