tug one's forelock

Meaning: (intransitive,idiomatic,often satirical or contemptuous)To showdeferenceorobsequiousrespect.Synonym:bow and scrape1988, David Corson,Education for Work: Background to Policy and Curriculum, page228:These students were quite capable oftugging their forelockswhile raising two fingers behind their backs (Newby, 1977), i.e. producing deferential behaviour as part of a more complicated game of manipulation.2013, William G. Tapply,The Dutch Blue Error:"Aw, lay off, will you? It's part of my job, you know that." "Yeah, bowing and scraping andtugging your forelockto all those rich old crones. Somebody's chauffeur probably got a scratch on the El Dorado, huh?"

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