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pay one's respects
Idioms and Phrases
see pay a call .Example Sentences
“After all, it’s the usual thing to do, isn’t it, to pay one’s respects to a bride?”
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.
There is no charge to pay one’s respects.
Only first—one must really pay one's respects to this sunset.'
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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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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