pay one's respects

1. see pay a call.

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“After all, it’s the usual thing to do, isn’t it, to pay one’s respects to a bride?”

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To pay one’s respects to the armed forces of another country, both at a parade of the living and a memorial to the dead, is standard procedure for a visiting dignitary; before seeing Erdoğan, for example, May went to the tomb of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the modern Turkish state.

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There is no charge to pay one’s respects.

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Only first—one must really pay one's respects to this sunset.'

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In any case one must, even if he lived in lonely state, pay one's respects to the head of the house.

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