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cap in hand
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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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