pay your respects
formalto visit someone in order to welcome or talk to them:
We went to pay our respects to our new neighbours.
also pay your last respects to honour someone after their death, usually by going to the person's funeral:
Friends and relatives came to pay their last respects to Mr Clarke.
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Meeting people
- appointment
- conclave
- cross
- cross sb's path/cross paths with sb idiom
- deal
- gathering
- hello
- hook
- hook up
- how are things (with you)? idiom
- how do you do? idiom
- it's a date idiom
- known
- massed
- meet
- meeting point
- muster point
- rally
- run across sb
- tryst
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Showing respect and admiration
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