cap in hand

Idioms and Phrases

see under hat in hand .

Example Sentences

There is no occasion to coax, and exhort, and ride cap-in-hand to them now.

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He is not to be checked here, and thwarted there, and taught to mince his words like a cap-in-hand pedlar.

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There was Dicky, cap-in-hand, in the Micentre ride, exhorting the young hounds to dive into the strong sea of gorse.

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