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单词 raise one's hat
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raise one's hat

Briefly remove one’s hat as a gesture of courtesy or respect to someone: he raised his hat to a passing lady...
  • But I have also known a huntsman call off hounds that seemed certain to kill, and raise his hat in tribute to the stag that had given us a run to remember.
  • The famous physician, Boerhaave, had such a high regard for its manifold curative properties that it is said that he never passed an Elder without raising his hat.
  • I remember when I was first appointed a judge, a senior but disappointed member of the Bar raised his hat to me, saying: ‘I raise my hat, if not to you, at any rate to the office’.
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