pay one's respects

Idioms  

1. see pay a call.

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Example Sentences

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

From Literature

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.

From The New Yorker

There is no charge to pay one’s respects.

From Slate

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg