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"ref": "1849, Herman Melville, chapter 61, in Redburn: His First Voyage",
"text": "Hat in hand, the sailors stood deferentially in a semicircle before him.",
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"ref": "1915, John Buchan, chapter 5, in Salute to Adventurers",
"text": "\"D'you think the proud English corporations are going to let you inside? Not them. The most you'll get will be the scraps that fall from their table, my poor Lazarus, and for these you'll have to go hat in hand to Dives.\"",
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"ref": "2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC",
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"(idiomatic) With humility; in an apologetic or self-effacing fashion."
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