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Idioms and Phrases

Acknowledge praise or applause, as in The conductor asked the composer to take a bow . This idiom uses bow in the sense of “inclining the body or head as a token of salutation.” [c. 1800]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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