"cap in hand" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the act of removing one's headwear in a sign of respect or submission. Attested from the 19th century.",
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          "text": "No longer were we required to go cap in hand to the banks if we wanted money: they were coming to us.",
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          "ref": "1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], chapter 1, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC:",
          "text": "He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; […]",
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          "ref": "2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's \"hidden heroes\"”, in Rail, page 42:",
          "text": "But with income from fares largely wiped out, it has come at a price. TfL had to go cap-in-hand to central Government for money. In doing so, it had to agree to changes - interference, if you prefer that choice of word - that it previously would have resisted.",
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          "ref": "2022 October 5, Yanis Varoufakis, “Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-10-15:",
          "text": "The notion that London will go cap in hand for a bailout too big for the IMF to deliver is absurd.",
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        "In a humble and respectful manner."
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        "(idiomatic) In a humble and respectful manner."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "poormouth"
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        {
          "word": "hat in hand"
        }
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  "etymology_text": "From the act of removing one's headwear in a sign of respect or submission. Attested from the 19th century.",
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; […]",
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          "ref": "2020 July 15, Mike Brown talks to Paul Clifton, “Leading London's \"hidden heroes\"”, in Rail, page 42:",
          "text": "But with income from fares largely wiped out, it has come at a price. TfL had to go cap-in-hand to central Government for money. In doing so, it had to agree to changes - interference, if you prefer that choice of word - that it previously would have resisted.",
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          "ref": "2022 October 5, Yanis Varoufakis, “Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2022-10-15:",
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      "word": "hat in hand"
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