doff one's hat to
verbDefinitions
To acknowledge praise towards (someone or something).
- I doffed my hat to the wondrous horse, the fast trotter, the best in mother England; and I too drew a deep ah! and repeated the words of the old fellows around. "Such a horse as this we shall never see again; a pity that he is so old."
- I doff my hat to Mr President of the Republic as he celebrates his eighth anniversary of accession to the pinnacle of political power.
- Perhaps this is why she enjoys writing series (doffing her hat to all the series she read as a child).
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