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单词 to take off one's hat
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to take off one's hat
a. to take off one's hat: to raise or remove one's hat as a greeting or sign of respect. Later also figurative: to show admiration, respect, or deference. Frequently with to.In quot. 1856 with punning allusion to the early Quakers' refusal to remove their hats as a sign of deference; cf. hat honour n. at Compounds 5.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [verb (transitive)]
followOE
honourc1275
regard1526
to take off one's hat1571
respect1576
to see unto ——1579
suspect1590
honestate1623
defer1686
consider1692
to look up to1719
to have no (a lot of, etc.) time for1938
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] > bare head
to take off one's hat1571
move1573
unhat1611
bonneta1616
off-capa1616
uncover1627
doff1674
to touch one's hat1738
unbonnet1821
1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia Foreste viii. f. 17v Wee accompte it courtesie, to take of the Cappe, or Hatte [Fr. leuer le bonnet], in salutinge an other.
1604 W. Bishop Reformation Catholike Deformed ii. 53 That worship which wee allow vnto Images, which, for the Saints sake whom it doeth represent, we doe..take off our hat, or bow our knee vnto it.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xx. 176 They stood not up, nor answered me a word, nor so much as tooke off their hats to me.
a1720 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1728) iii. 82 They were fined for not taking off their Hats before Magistrates.
1779 J. Boswell Jrnl. 8 July in Edinb. Jrnls. 1767–86 (2001) xi. 342 Took off our hats to one another and bowed very often.
1846 Patriot 6 Aug. 535/1 England had acted nobly in the emancipation of her slaves, and..he felt that he could take off his hat to her on that account.
1856 Punch 5 Jan. 3/2 Quaker, a Friend who..in the art of making inflammatory speeches, takes his hat off to no man.
1910 U.S. Tobacco Jrnl. 26 Mar. 16/2 We take our hats off to the United Store at Seventeenth and Curtis for one thing—their attractive windows.
1977 J. Johnston Shadows on our Skin 26 There's not a bloody sod in this city would take off his hat to me in the street.
2010 P. Daniels Class Actor xxv. 163 I think it takes a special kind of character to be a youth leader—so Ug and Jay..I take my hat off to you.
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