英语词汇“to be hat in hand to”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. to be hat in hand to: to adopt an excessively deferential attitude towards. Hence (now only) hat-in-hand adj.: excessively deferential; servile. Cf. cap-in-hand at cap n.¹ 4h.

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1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists ii. 62 John Dennis, was hat in hand to Mr. Congreve.

1869 Edinb. Evening Courant 26 July 7/3 The hat in hand beggar of a vote.

1907 M. E. Mann Sheep & Goats v. 51 He had been hat in hand to these people all his life, getting no farther than their door-mats in intimacy.

1918 Public 7 Sept. 1138/2 There must be no cringing, no fawning, no hat-in-hand attitude.

1995 R. H. Zieger CIO 1935–55 iv. 80 Groups of disaffected government employees.., impatient with the hat-in-hand approach of their AFL unions.

单词	to be hat in hand to
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